Saturday, August 20th - Day 62 Update

Hi again,

Tori did wonderful Friday night and slept until 9:30am this morning. She didn't even seem to mind the suctioning last night and almost slept through it. Her coughing is improving with each day and she can typically clear her own lungs at this point. Minimal suction is needed afterward to get any remaining Phlegm from her throat. The amounts of phlegm are rapidly decreasing and Tori can easily keep her blood oxygen levels above 95% at all times.

Her lower lip is looking so much better as well and at some point we will attempt to leave the bite guard out of her mouth and only insert it during moments of agitation as a precaution. Maria came up to hospital this morning and we left for the fundraiser at 1:00pm. She did great until then and while Guy watched her as well. Grandpa and Grandma Schmanski are watching her tonight and they mentioned she is still resting well and is feeling good and unagitated when awake.

If Tori continues to do well through the weekend we will more than likely move her to the Health South Hospital in Sandy early next week. Our concern at the moment is still the Bilious output from her GJ-Tube. It does appear to be diminishing and we believe the cause is related to inflammation of her Pyloric Sphincter after her GJ-Tube surgery. We are hoping the drainage is complete before we move Tori of course.

That concludes a pretty light update on Tori today. She is doing well and I'm betting we will finally be out of the PCMC early next week as planned. At that point we get to break in a totally new set of hospital staffers so it should be interesting. The best part though is that we can completely focus on her rehabilitation efforts and we are looking forward to this greatly.

Thank you all,

-Tim