Wednesday August 21, 2024 Daytime update

• 8:00am Maureen is lying on her left with Tom by her side, she’s ccepting sips of water via swab. As per Tom, Maureen first woke up around 7:30 without any distress.

• 8:30am Maureen’s sleeping.

• 8:45am Maureen is awake now. We raised the bed to administer 75mcg levothyroxine with apple sauce.

• 8:50am Joanna and I started the day by giving Maureen a full body bath using damped washcloth and cetaphil cleanser, no redness observed. Clean/change a dry diaper, applied Cavilon barrier film to sacrum, barrier cream to inner thighs area. Noticed some yellow vaginal discharge. Dressed and continued to wash Maureen’s hair, then headed to the kitchen.

• 9:15am Breakfast starts with fresh pear, coffee and a cup of lemon water.

• Reclined Geri chair one notch for comfort.

• 9:30am Blow/dry and styled Maureen’s hair.

• 9:45am Breakfast cont. with an oatmeal/fruit smoothie with 2 teasp Activia. Maureen had a sneezing/coughing/red face episode, suction pump used.

• 10:00am Administered 10mg Loratadine with smoothie.

• No Metamucil given

• 10:15am Oral care

• 10:25am Facial routine performed.

• 10:45am Saline Neb treatment.

  
  

• 11:00am Kelsie, RN arrives for Maureen’s weekly visit:

  Lungs are clear

  Temp: 98.5

  Pulse: 72

  BP: 110/62

  Arm circumference: 24 cm

  Thigh circumference: 34cm

  
  

• 11:30am Transferred to the bedroom for Maureen’s first resting break. Diaper it’s dry, positioned on her right side. She closed her eyes for 15 minutes during break.

• 12:30pm First break ends. Clean/change a heavy wet diaper, dressed and headed to the kitchen.

• Reclined Geri chair one notch for comfort.

• 12:45pm Lunch: Chicken and veggies soup, potato chips, guacamole and a full cup of coconut water. Maureen coughed four times.

• 1:40pm Oral care.

• 2:00pm Maureen is alert and relaxed; reclined her chair two notches for Maureen’s comfort.

• Maureen had 3/4 cup of lemon water.

• 2:30pm Transferred to the bedroom for Maureen’s second resting break. Clean/change a medium wet diaper, and then positioned on her left side.

• 3:30pm Second break ends. Clean/change a medium wet diaper, dressed and headed to the front room.

• 3:45pm Maureen is enjoying her fruit snack (melon/pear/kiwi) and half cup of lemon water.