Sunday, August 21st - Day 63 Update

Good evening,

Tori is continuing to improve and she gave Grandpa and Grandma Schmanski a quiet and uneventful Saturday evening and early Sunday morning. She was also responsive and awake during the entire day again and had numerous visitors today as well. The color of her skin and her healing lower lip looked wonderful today and the healing appears to be occurring.

The amount of Bilious from her GJ-Tube venting continues to diminish as anticipated and her feeds are still steady 100 milligrams per hour continuous. We weighed her again today and she came in at 45.3 kilograms or 99.7 lbs which indicates she is has gained some weight over the last 4 days. Hurray!! :-) She also sat up in her chair for about 30 minutes and did well. Her breathing seems very good when her chest is in a vertical position so we are going to attempt to place her like this as much as possible even when she is in her bed.

Tori went to sleep unaided by any medications at 8:00pm tonight and was still sleeping when I left the hospital at 9:30pm or so. She was sleeping very deeply during this time with a heart rate of 90 beats per minute, 100% oxygenated blood and a breathing rate of 17 breaths per minute. These numbers indicate a complete state of sleep for Tori and she even had a little bit of a snore going during this time :-)

Maria is spending the night with Tori and sometime tomorrow we will probably determine her departure date from the PCMC barring any last minute health issues. We have been at this point a couple of times before and my feeling is her stay at the PCMC isn't over until she is in her new bed at Health South in Sandy. We shall see what happens during the first part of next week.

Thanks everyone!!

-Tim