Update

I spent a couple of hours with LaShae yesterday and she seems to be recovering very nicely. Her color was a lot better and she is off of the oxygen and IV fluids. She still has the central line because they are still giving her pretty much round the clock antibiotics. Yesterday she got up and walked the whole length of the hall down to the elevator (she is in the last room of the hall.) So, that was good. She still is not eating much...food makes her nauseated and nothing smells good or tastes good but they do not seem to be worried about that at all after what she has been through. She is still in some pain and they are primarily controlling that with a pill. Yesterday she slept about 6 to 7 hours. At lunch she was nauseated so they brought her some phenergan and it knocked her out !!!! The nurse said next time they were only going to give her half !!!

While I was in the hospital I visited with Ruby. She has been in the hospital since the last part of April. They are suppose to be moving her sometime this week out of the hospital and into their sister "special" hospital. The Doctors make rounds over there and they have an ICU and everything. Just basically a Mini-Hospital. I hope she will like it over there. Last night I was there when they brought her food tray so I kinda helped get it to where she could eat. She ate pretty good !! The nurse said she has been eating about 50% of her tray..which is just amazing !!! Mike, the kids, and I went and saw her Friday night and Maegen just drew her pictures and wrote little notes like "Do you have a dog?", "Do you have a cat?", and "The garden looks good?" Ruby seemed to enjoy seeing the kids. She has been in isolation and no one under 14 has been able to go and see her.