'headed in the right direction'

that's how her nurse described her this morning

off sedation, gonna have her sit up in her chair

lowered her oxygen machine to '30'

he did say however that now there's some problem

with her digestive tract, but he wasn't concerned

-'we'll give her something to take care of that'

he said she's headed in the right direction


editor's note:

this is my 50th posting and after this much contact with these various nurses
i think i've come to the conclusion that you really never know what's happening

they are not gonna alarm me or admit that they've done anything wrong
or that their patient is in any pain or distress or danger

but me not being there and all i have to report is what they report to me

-that's how we get back to the question of 'how do we cope?'

we cope with hope

these things are obviously out of our hands
so we have to rely on somebody else to handle things
she's in good hands
and me, for one, i have hope