Not right but not sure what to do about it!

Dear Family and Friends,

Nan is sleeping again after waking for vitals. I am not feeling good about her condition tonight at all. When I arrived this morning I found that she had very low blood pressure during the night and then had 1 mg of Dilatid for upper back and neck pain that was pretty intense. Her right eye was slightly drooping and her speach was slightly slurred. The eye continues to be slightly less open than her left eye and her speech continues to be sort of sleepy unless she works very hard at speaking clearly. She does not think anything is wrong at all, does not think her speech is different but saw the drooping eye in the mirror so admits that. The doctor did not notice anything wrong but said her magnessium and potassium were both way off normal. He ordered both and several hours later the bag of both mixed together was delivered and the nurse started it. We found out that her dressing was 36 hours old since it had been changed, when I changed it under the watchful eye of Carrol, a nurse of many years, we found it leaking and very green. She had me report it to the nurse who noted it in the file and for the doctors attention tomorrow. We carefully put a new wet to dry in place and Nan carefully taped it down, at least finally it was dry and updated. We are going to ask that the doctor write it to be changed twice a day from now on. The doctor told us that once they get the magnessium and potassium levels correct then Nan can go home. He also suggested that we have blood work done twice a week for the present time so we can quickly pick up if there is a problem in potassium or magnessium levels. We intend to ask him to contact home health to see if we can have some help at home for the first couple weeks, we also plan to ask for some help with physical therapy, I do a terrible job of motivating Nan to do exercises, walk, sit up and do those things which will build her up for her own independence. Mostly she wants to sleep and try to get well that way.

I am very frustrated tonight. I feel like there may be something not quite right with the slurred speech and the drooping eye, the low energy level and all. Yet I don't know who to turn to or what to do about it. I have told the nurses and they note it in the file. I'm going to try to stay here a little later than usual since I have the motorhome right here and go there anytime to sleep.

It has been so wonderful to have family and friends here today. This evening it was very hard to say good bye to Nikki and Keanna as they drove away and also earlier to say good bye to Joyce and Glen and even earlier to say good bye to Bob and Carrol. Yet everyone has to go home sometime. My heart begs for help from our loving heavenly Father, Nan has been through so much and continues to be experiencing hard times, I pray that God can help her turn a corner and help her start to feel better each day, stronger, healthier, happier.

Please ask Jesus for His help this evening, I don't know what to do but I sure feel like I should be doing something to help her before things get worse but no one else seems to notice that there is anything even wrong.

We send our love,

tim and nan