It’s already 3:30? Time flies when we’re having a great day.
The night went well: Marion reported that Lisa tried to be sneaky and asked for cups and “swishes” of water. No sips, just light swabs in preparation for the morning’s TEE.
This morning there was the TEE and Lisa’s heart arteries are A-okay! No blood clots and everything looks as beautiful as ever.
A+++
Then as soon as the anesthesia wore off this afternoon the speech therapist came- stuck a scope down Lisa’s nose and the swallow test commenced!
Lisa swallowed green ice chips, blue water (of several consistencies), blue applesauce and green peaches. She chewed up a saltine cracker. “I can swallow like a girl now huh?” Lisa asked at the end of her test. “Yes, you can” affirmed the speech therapist. Yet another
A++++ and gold stars times a million!
We are now wrangling a wish list of beverages: mango smoothies, passion teas. Any other delicious suggestions? We are in full celebration. Just moments ago Marion and Lisa as a team tore up her NPO (No per Oral) order that had been hanging on Lisa’s door.
Lisa is napping while we are scouring the Louisville landscape for an open restaurant on Labor’s Day (Starbucks is closed? Nonsense). We’re on the case.
Also as a side note, Lisa’s beautiful hair had been getting in her face as she rolls around. Thank you Tricia for bringing a few headbands by this morning. The blue looks wonderful on her right now.
Happy Labor Day!
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