Thursday pm: "mom report"
Bette went with them when they did wound care this morning. The grafts on his arms look okay. The shoulders look good. His poor back on the donor sites are still weepy and giving him fits. He doesn't want anything touching them. He has been sitting straight up in bed all day since he got back from wound care. A dermatology resident came to evaluate his rash right after he came back from getting all new dressings and ripped them all off so she could look at his rash. She did a punch biopsy from his belly and put a stitch in it. Now that the anesthesia has worn off the site is bugging him. He is making more sound around the trach tube today. It still seems to be a lot of effort to talk. PT had him up on his feet a couple of times today. The last time they were in, he felt nauseated and then he had a coughing fit that lasted about 10 minutes. He was exhausted after that. Needless to say, it did a lot for clearing the lungs.

Aunt Judy called and she is coming to SLC tomorrow with our cousin Tamme. They may take Bette to the circus. It will be a good distraction, I think.

More later,
and so we go
JaCee