The title says it all. Margaret spent most of Saturday asleep. When she woke up she was quite incoherent except from between 11.45 am and 12.30 pm when she actualy woke up and allowed me to feed her some lunch. This was the first food she has eaten since Tuesday.
I visited her at 10,00 am and stayed till 1.00 pm. The nurses did not get her out to bed for a shower but cleaned her up in bed. She barely stirred during the whole procedure. The weekend specialist physician examined her just before lunch. He said that by withholding her Frusimide her kidney function had stabilised but there were now signs of fluid accumulating in her lungs so he would have to re-instate them. She is on a drip all the time.
I visited from 4.30 pm to 6.30 pm but she didn't really wake up. I tried to get to have some dinner but she wouldn't or couldn't open her eyes. She didn't event notice me kiss good night when I left.
Later in the evening Helen phoned me to say that she had spoken to the RN in charge of Margaret who said that Margaret was now severly dehydrated and her drip flow rate had been doubled.
Margaret is not in pain and normally sleeping peacefully. I don't think that she has urinated in the last couple of days. If not she is in a very poor renal shape.
They told Helen that Margaret will be moved to an area where she can be monitored more closely but not to the High Dependency Unit. Really they are just providing palliative care which is all that Margaret wants.
I shall visit in about an hour.
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