About 1 hour after we arrived this morning Bev opened her left eye. Up until then she seemed to be sleeping. Bev kept looking around at Kim, Sherri and myself. She seemed to know us. The nurse said Bev seemed very alert. Bev's heart rate jumped quite high and her blood pressure shot up. The nurse gave us some time to try and connect with Bev. I was able to get Bev to open her mouth once and also close her eyelid. We seemed to be making a connection. Bev's right eye was also trying to open. The nurse gave Bev a sedative to calm her down and slowly she closed her eye and seemed to go back to sleep.
The doctors took Bev completely off the respirator for 30 minutes before we arrived. Bev started to become anxious in her breathing so they put her back on the respirator. The respirator is now set to a mode that encourages Bev to do more breathing on her own. When she exhales some comes out through her mouth and she seems to be trying harder to breathe on her own. The doctors are planning to remove 1 of the remaining chest tubes soon.
We have been told that Bev will have to be off the respirator for at least 2 days before they can plan to send her home. Optimistically Bev could come home in about 1 week to 10 days.
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