Friday, June 17, 2011

Fourth Surgery Update 9

June 17, 2011

Dorene takes Tamara for a half mile walk by the lake near Dorene’s house each evening when it has cooled down. Tamara still takes blood thinner and Tylenol.

Tamara has qualified for in-home nursing care. Dorene said, “Yesterday the nurse came, took her blood pressure and talked to her. She will come once or twice a week. Tamara won’t have to go to the doctor at all, because they nurses come to our home to check her out.”

Because David works at the hospital he gets a special benefit for his wife. Tamara has a computer they brought out today. Dorene said, “They hooked it up to our telephone. She can take her blood pressure, her weight, her temperature, and her heart rate. All that goes over the telephone to a nurse that is on the other end that checks to make sure she is okay. So every day we check those four items. So if anything went wrong we would send that and they would be out to help her.

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