Today was the best day so far and she may have met her requirements for release from hospital care. I got in a little after 12pm and she was busy stuffing aquaphor down her dressings. She only puts it on the second degree areas because the third degree areas have the silver medicine on that and that medicine debries the dead area away. Since she is down to one dressing and debriement a day it happened around 2:30pm. They brought her in pain meds in pill form and then waited 1/2 hour and then took her back to the bathing treatment tubs. She cleaned the burned areas herself and required no additional IV pain meds. She did need help dressing the burns which will be my job when she comes back to stay with us. I should be able to do this when I get home from work every day. The day nurse today said that there are three requirements for release- no IV pain meds during dressing changes, burns have healed enough where the possibilty of infection is low and that the patient is being sent home to somewhere- where minimal care can be given. She meets these, so hopefully the Dr's in the morning will agree and we can get her home. She will be sent home with enough dressings and pain meds for us to do at home until she is due back at the burn clinic. She will be monitored every so many days at the burn clinic for possible infection and whatever else is involved in her continuing burn care. She is very anxious to get on with her life and get beyond all this.
Tonight, when visiting hours were over Phil, Missy and I went down to the cafeteria for a bite to eat so we could visit a little longer. She can leave the floor at 6PM , we just can't stay on the floor. It was a nice change for her. No Vanilla Custard Soft Serve Yogurt tonight for dessert, they had Dutch Chocolate instead. That was pretty good too. She seemed to enjoy it!
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