Mother has responded, finally, to the medical support in the hospital
and after four days of "non-responsive state" she is back to
"baseline" state, or, no worse off then she was about 10 days ago,
which was not very good state to begin with.
Three IV solutions have been used. Potassium, Sodium and an antibiotic.
She is now responding to speech, seems to recognize some voices and
her eyes are open some of the time.
She is asking for her father, asking for Jesus and moderately aware
between times of sleep or non-responsiveness.
The hospital doctor again repeated his professional opinion that the
"aspiration pneumonia" was ultimately untreatable since any ingestion
of food or liquid will restart the infection and he can not recommend
repeated hospital admission cycles. Dad and I agreed with his opinion.
Mom has been discharged back to the nursing home and her care plan
has been adjusted to prevent this cycle from repeating in the future.
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