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No, her son hasn’t been in to see her. If she gets moved to Intermediate Care, he will be able to. She said this morning that they still think a room will become available soon for her.

I wonder if she wouldn’t be better off staying in the ICU for a couple more days. I don’t think this morning’s report was as encouraging as yesterday’s. She’s only on 30% oxygen now (which is great news) when it had been turned up about as high as it would go but she’s been taken off her own BP medication as her heart rate is going down. I understand that one medication can cause a problem somewhere else and perhaps all the other meds she’s getting are interfering with that. I simply don’t know.

No change in the morning’s x-ray from yesterday’s...

She said that no one will have to wear a mask entering her room in the ICU now because they figure she’s past the contagious stage of - what? - the flu? I didn’t think they’d determined she had that even tho’ they prescribed Tamiflu as a precaution and I thought the masks were to keep visitors from infecting her with their germs.

I think it might be time for me to go back and find the critical care doctor’s post who offered to answer any questions he could that I might have...Now they seem to be coming....

Thank you all - I’m not forgetting any of you and the concerns you have for complete strangers.