Nana's finally being discharged today. This time for real. Laura made the 60 mile drive yet again today up to the hospital. Traffic on the freeways was miserable, and it took her close to 90 minutes to get to the hospital. Aunt M and Uncld A were visit with Nana. I think Aunt D was there as well. Nana's little hospital room was pretty close to a full house that day.
I called the Oxygen Supply company to get things squared away. At first they couldn't find the information for me. The gentleman on the phone said he would call me back in about half an hour. He called back as promised in the time frame promised. He said that he found the paperwork, and everything was in order. He said he would be by in another 30 minutes to drop everything off, and wanted to know how many oxygen tanks we wanted. Amazing...once things were figured out, they really did a nice job.
About half an hour later, he showed up and delivered three oxygen tanks and a 5 liter oxygen concentrator. He also provided about 60 feet of tubing and several cannulas to go in Nana's nose Having 60 feet of tubing gives Nana free reign--she can get into just about any room she desires.
Laura and Nana arrived home around 7pm, and we had a difficult time trying to get Nana into the house. When she was rounding the bend by the rose bush in front of our house, the air hose popped off the oxygen tank. Her strength just drained away. We got it re-connected, and my wife turned it up so she was getting quite a bit of oxygen. One of the boys brought out a chair, and the other brought out this other walker we have that rolls and has an integrated seat. Nana sat down for a few minutes, then transferred to the rolling walker and I wheeled her into the house. It was good to have her home, but it was a difficult night as she needed quite a bit of help.
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