Things are looking up

[annathepiper]

For those of you who haven't already seen this news over on kathrynt or mamishka's journals, finally, finally, that damned breathing tube is out of solarbird. They took it out of her around 1:30 this afternoon, turned off her sedation and pretty much all of her meds, and put her on a 50-percent oxygen mix to help her lungs along. spazzkat, risu, and I were all with her this afternoon, and she came close to waking up quite a few times, though she's really still kind of a different plane from the rest of us. It'll be another day or two before she's fully back with us.

But at least, finally, this hurdle has been cleared. She'll be in the ICU for a few more days yet as well, so I'm still hitting the hospital for the day shift, but we'll see if this situation changes maybe later this week.

mamishka brought us teriyaki tonight, and auntmonkey will be checking in tomorrow with a dinner contribution. And to all the Norwescon folks now looking in on my journal, hiya, and I'm already telling Dara that you're asking after her. Keep the good wishes coming, everyone!

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[pstratt.livejournal.com]

Go Dara!!! Anna's not doing so bad herself. That was really nice of the GBS folks in the other thread.

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[annathepiper]

Anna has been doing way, way, WAY better this past week, starting at "incoherent with joy" when Dara woke up. kathrynt said that when I called her with the news I was quite literally talking so loudly and so quickly into the phone that she couldn't understand what I was saying, and my cellphone speaker was clipping. ;)

And yeah, it was really wonderful of them. I'll be thinking of that every single time I hear those songs for quite some time! :) Especially now that I know I can go to the forthcoming show at Bumbershoot with a clear and easy heart!