Last night, Gabriel was weak. His temperature was low (34.8), as was his pulse ox. We were scared (post-traumatic hypervigilance) because the last time it happened it wasn’t a good sign (temp 32 at the worst time).
This morning, a doctor came in with a new diagnosis.
\n 1. This time it’s serious<\/strong>\n <\/p>\n\n A pulmonologist consulted online by the hospital reviewed every X-ray, every CT scan. \n 2. Pulsotherapy<\/strong>\n <\/p>\n\n The third pulsotherapy, scheduled for August 25, will depend on its progress. \n 3. Speech therapist<\/strong>\n <\/p>\n\n Gabriel will have sessions with the speech therapist, who will help him relearn to swallow and eat on his own. \n 4. Irritations and secretions<\/strong>\n <\/p>\n\n His nose and throat are irritated and full of secretions, sometimes with blood. \n 5. Sedatives<\/strong>\n <\/p>\n\n This seems to be the last week with strong sedatives like metadone. That’s a good thing. \n 6. Hospital discharge<\/strong>\n <\/p>\n\n One day we’re told it’ll be out in 3 days, then finally in 1 month, and today it was 5 days. \n They drive us crazy<\/strong>\n <\/p>\n\n Generally speaking, accepting this diagnosis is almost impossible for us. It’s as if you’d entrusted your life’s most precious possession to a repairman you trusted. But was it God who let the bacteria into the hospital through negligence, or human debility? So that’s the magic recipe for driving people crazy.<\/p>\n\n \n And to return to the positive <\/strong>\n <\/p>\n\n Because it’s important to stay the course. We say to ourselves: <\/p>\n\n So we try to hold on to that as best we can.<\/p>\n\n \n In parallel :<\/strong>\n <\/p>\n\n We’re looking into the possibility of repatriation to France. If this could be done without any risk, we might consider starting a fund to finance the trip (nothing certain for the moment… but since we can’t stand them here anymore…). We’re due to sign the lease for the apartment shortly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last night, Gabriel was weak. His temperature was low (34.8), as was his pulse ox. We were scared (post-traumatic hypervigilance) because the last time it happened it wasn’t a good sign (temp 32 at the worst time). This time, an X-ray, blood tests… and in the end: nothing. So much the better! This morning, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopeforgabriel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopeforgabriel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopeforgabriel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopeforgabriel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopeforgabriel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hopeforgabriel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopeforgabriel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopeforgabriel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopeforgabriel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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