February 6th

First thing this morning Brenda had a feeding tube placed in her stomach. The feeding tube in her nose will be removed on Thursday, if all goes well. The Renal Doctor said Brenda's kidney numbers continue to improve and she is still processing acceptable levels of urine. The Pulmonary doctor said they are going to continue to wean her off the Ventilator starting tomorrow and the delay is due to the insertion of the feeding tube. The Therapists came in today and had Brenda stand up three times, she did this with assistance of the Therapists. One time she was able to straighten her legs out all the way, and the other two times she was about 65%. This was an big improvement over yesterday. She is active participant in her rehab. They also did the dressing change later in the afternoon. She continues to increase her rehab time each day, she has a long way to go. Starting Thursday we will go to a 3 day reporting cycle unless there is a dramatic change in her condition. So we will do a report Thursday and then the next report is scheduled for Sunday. That report will cover Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.