Nannie's continuing saga
About 1/2 hour after I did the last post I got a call from Auntie Colleen that Nannie had woken from being asleep with flu symptoms (possibly from the antibiotic she was on). She stood up from going to the bathroom, told Colleen she felt sick, passed out, falling straight back and hit her head on the toilet. Colleen called 911 and they took Nannie to Stanford Hospital because Kaiser doesn't have a trauma unit. Nannie, Colleen and I spent all night in the Emergency room of Stanford Hospital where they ran lots of tests. It turns out that there are no more fractures, all the tests came out okay, but they did put two staples in the back of her head where it was cut. At about 8 am Monday morning they transferred Nannie to Kaiser where they are observing her trying to figure out why she keeps passing out, and to keep an eye on the infection. Also this will keep her off her feet so her ankle will get some rest. Pray that we can find a home health care person if she returns home, or better yet that we find a good Sr. citizen's home that we think she would like, to move her to. She can have visitors at the hospital and is in room 618 at Santa Clara Kaiser.
posted by Donni @ 5/17/2005
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Thanks for keeping us updated. We'll be praying for Nannie and for you and Auntie Colleen to figure out the best action to take, and for the doctors who are looking into what is making Nannie pass out. Wish we could come and visit, but its a long drive. Tell Nannie hi for us and we hope she feels better soon.
We went and visited her tonight. I don't know where she thinks she is but I don't think that she thinks that she is in a hospital. She went between the past and the present a lot while we were there. I think she knew who we were at least part of the time so that was good. She seems to be doing good physically since she keeps forgetting that she has cast on her leg, so it must not hurt too bad. Anyway, she seems good physically but seems more confused and stuck in the past more mentally.
By the way, it's room 681, not 618 as in the post.
Shawn & I visited Nannie Friday morning and she was doing much better. She even knew she'd hurt her foot or ankle and who we were most of the time (and when Shawn went back up to her room with a balloon she knew he'd been there earlier) She was supposed to be released about 6 pm today. Auntie Colleen will stay with her for the weekend and Monday and hopefully by then will have a home health care person lined up to come in.
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