Wednesday August 28, 2024 Daytime update

• 8:00am Maureen’s awake, having few sips of water via swab. Tom tells she’s been in an out of sleep since 7am.

• 8:30am Maureen is sleeping.

• 9:00am Maureen’s awake, we raised the bed to administer 75mcg Levothyroxine with apple sauce.

• 9:10am Joanna and I started our day giving Maureen an upper body bath using warmed purple wipes, no redness observed. Clean/change a medium wet diaper, applied Cavilon barrier film to sacrum, barrier cream to inner thighs area. Dressed and headed to the kitchen.

• Reclined Geri chair one notch for Maureen’s comfort.

• 9:30am Breakfast starts with fresh pear, coffee, a cup of lemon water and 4oz Activia yogurt.

• 9:40am Administered 10mg loratadine and 1 Colace capsule with yogurt.

• 9:55am Breakfast cont. with an oatmeal/fruit smoothie. Maureen coughed and sneezed twice.

• No Metamucil, Colace instead

• 10:20am Oral care.

• 10:30am Facial routine performed.

• Reclined Geri chair two notches for Maureen’s comfort.

• Carolyn arrives for Maureen’s nurse visit.

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

  Lungs are clear

Temp: 98.1

Pulse: 62

BP: 110/68

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

• 12:30pm First break ends. Clean/change a medium wet diaper, dressed and headed Maureen to the patio for lunch.

• 12:50pm Lunch: Sweet peas soup, chicken salad with fresh tomatoes, and a full cup of sparkling water.

• 1:40pm Oral care.

• 2:20pm Maureen sits relaxed and alert listening to her playlist. In the meantime, she 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, then positioned on her left side.

• 3:30pm Second break ends. Diaper it’s dry, dressed and headed to the living room.

• 3:45pm Maureen’s enjoying her fruit snack (melon/pear/kiwi).