Mornings Suck!

This morning was a killer for Stefann. At 6:00 am the vampire came to take his blood which started a coughing fit. Good and bad. Good because it brings up yucky stuff, bad because it hurts.

At the end of his coughing fit he told me that he felt like he needed more O2 and I told him to just breathe deeper and slower. He calmed down and went back to sleep. A while later the nurse came in and brought him more fentinol which put him in a very sedated state and his stats fell drastically. When they came in to do his vitals at 7:00 am his O2 level was 75% - BAD, VERY BAD!

The nurse (morning nurse, night nurse was gone for the day now), Laura came in and turned his oxygen back up high and put him on a mask. They called for his breathing treatment - was for 8:00 am anyway - and after that his O2 level started to rise again. About 4 hours after receiving the fentenol he was back to a functional state.

Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy came and he got OUT OF BED! Hooray! He was up for a couple hours, ate his lunch in the chair, while watching NetFlix, went and had another chest X-ray (in a wheel-chair) and not has gotten himself back in bed for a while. He said he will get up and eat dinner from his chair again.

Here he is in his chair with his heart. The heart is what he squeezes when he has a coughing fit. It acts as a sort of "splint" for his ribs next to his lung.