Bill (Mom's brother) called last night concerned that he couldn't get ahold of Mom. I called to talk to the nurse's station, as I'm officially, "on the list" now and can get current status. They stop short of answering "opinion" questions, so I'm pretty good at asking questions they're willing to answer.
The short of it is that the chest tube was not removed as of 9p last night. Mom was very uncomfortable from the Pleurodesis on Wednesday and didn't have a good day at all. She was very tired on Thursday and likely was sleeping or had turned off the ringer. Stella (nurse on shift) also answered my questions on eating and confirmed that she hadn't eaten much, and I asked when the doctors would step in and take more aggressive action, and she said that they would when they felt it was necessary. Mom has been getting a lot of IV fluids, so there's no risk of dehydration, but at some point she's going to need to get a more steady flow of nutrition.
Hopefully she'll get the chest tube removed today, and then they can consider whatever's next in the process. I'm guessing at some point we should hear if there are any results back from whatever testing they did on the fluid that was removed over last weekend.
I had put a message into Dr. Razia last week, but she never responded, so I think I may try to pin down Dr. Huntsinger's number (GP) to see what information I can get from her.
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