One Journey After Diabetic Coma

(Tricia) Sorry for the two-weeks-long silence! It has been a bit stressful trying to get used to this "new normal." Linda's C.diff is now fully controlled with the once-daily dose of 125 mg of vancomycin. We hate the fact that she now has to be on two antibiotics indefinitely, but if it's ongoing antibiotics or infection, we will obviously choose the antibiotics! We did have a bit of a scare a week ago, where it seemed like the C.diff might be breaking through, but the doctor called in the order for a test through Quest--the first results came back "inconclusive." That meant the test was positive for an antigen that is present when C.diff bacteria are also present, but it came back negative for the C.diff toxins themselves. The second results came back more conclusively: No active C.diff detected.  Finally. Her new primary care doctor also ordered an in-home blood panel, and when those results came back, the doctor called to say he was pleased to see that al

Photo by James Wainscoat on Unsplash (Tricia) Things have been relatively quiet for the past week. We have been trying to play a "memory game" with Linda in which we ask her to try to remember three words that I chose at random: hummingbird, bus, and chocolate. But, unfortunately, her memory has not improved very much from where it was after her second hip surgery. She can remember that we presented her with three words to remember (which is an improvement itself, I suppose!), but she rarely can remember the words themselves. Sometimes she remembers "hummingbird," likely because we're often pointing to the hummingbirds at the feeder that's just outside her window. We also love hummingbirds because when we see one, it reminds us of Mother.  But the other two words are rare. What's funny is that for "bus" she usually comes up with related words like carpool or limousine. which indicates her brain is registering it as a vehicle. A few times, s