Hippo, birdie, two ewes...

... to janeg!!! Have a great one!!

Colleen[22]: Progress

So there's been progress. The paperwork for sending Colleen home has been started; hopefully she'll be coming home on Thursday, though it may be as late as Monday because they don't like to send people home on Friday or weekends. The case managers for both White Blossom and Kaiser agree that she's more than ready. They also agree that it's OK to game the system in order to take advantage of the home nursing service even if their rules are stupid. (Added 12:02 Or rather, because their rules are stupid.)

I went through the entire process of mixing and hanging her IV tonight. Grateful, as usual, for my apparently-excellent memory for processes, and the fact that my right hand is unusually dextrous for a sinister person: I can thank the guitar for that one, I think. Even with both hands it's complicated; there are places where you simply flick a cap away with a thumbnail and clean up afterwards. I'm not really comfortable with it all, and would just as soon let the visiting nurses handle it.

I'm finally hitting the wall on energy and time: I could probably manage filling in for Colleen on chores and errand-running, given a lot of help from the kids. When you include visits, there just isn't time for much of anything else, and a lot of things are getting put off that really ought to get done. We'll make it... Having her home will help a lot even if she can't leave the house. And we'll both sleep better.