Today was a low day. Everyone's nerve is frayed, including Bill's and mine. Abby's AM post about Bill refusing dialysis was very alarming. I called him several times from work to persuade him otherwise. He kept on saying that he will be all better if he could just come home and take a nap. I told him the quickest way to come home is by getting his kidneys back in working order. The nurse said that his creatinine level had crept up again, to 3.7. That was very disheartening.
When I got to the hospital around 6p, Bill was practicing sitting up in the cardiac chair. He kept on trying to get up from the chair. He believed that if he could get up from the chair he could just walk out the hospital door. Sadly he was mistaken.
I finally got to talk to the charge nurse Art at 7.30 about the constant changes in the nursing staff. This has become a real issue, as the quality of nurses varies and continuity of care is just not there. Art said he would try to minimize disruptions in nursing care. We will see.
When the night nurse Allison came into the room around 8p, Bill woke up from a brief nap. We tried persuading him to do dialysis again. This time Bill said he would consider it since the articles Janet Jones sent said it was harmless. We could broach the subject tomorrow AM.
Good night...
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