Icky

[wolf]

Okay ... so a lot of time has passed.

crazynurse is off the vent, she's conscious, alert, talking, and cranky as hell.

She won't eat though. Except peanut butter. Because she says she can't chew meat. She chews fine. Stale bagel is a lot harder to chew than teensy pieces of chicken, which she hides in her cheek and spits out, so I know she can chew fine. And she was chewing ice. So it's not the chewing. Or the swallowing. She won't even consider chicken noodle soup ... and the noodles are so overcooked they're nearly a liquid.

She needs liquid nutrition, or at least mechanical soft food, but for reasons that are unclear, the doctors aren't ordering it.

Physical therapy was supposed to start yesterday, but she was out of the room for dialysis when they showed up, and they didn't come back. She can't lift her leg off the bed at this point, but I'm not sure she could do that before her hospitalization.