My nan (mum's mum) was moved out of IC and into the High Dependency Unit on Friday- they took her off the ventilator and she has even started to say a few words.
She went into hospital on Monday because she was acting in a confused way, was being sick and had been constipated for a long time.
My aunt phoned up the GP to ask him to come to see her. But he said that they should bring her in even though they couldn't move her.
Eventually, they decided to call the ambulance and she was taken into A&E.
They found out that she had a urinary infection and also that her sodium and potassium levels were dangerously low.
It was lucky that they brought her in when they did.
I went with my parents to see my nan - but when I saw her in that condition I couldn't stop myself from breaking down and crying. I prayed at night that she would get better and my mum rang my uncle and the hospital every morning to check on her progress.
On tuesday, she was transfered to IC where they stuck lots of tubes into her. They put her on a sodium drip to slowly increase levels - they also had to put one into her heart to make sure that the rise in sodium did not have an adverse effect - they also had to do a brain scan to see if it had caused any damage - luckily it hadn't.
On thursday we went to see her in the IC - she had been sedated to make her sleep through the night - but the nurse told us that she would still be able to hear - so my mum spent about an hour talking to my nan - telling her how much we appreciate her and how much she has done for the family - and also how the family were staying strong together.
Amazingly, my nan communicated by moving her feet and even tried to open her eyes.
On thursday morning, my two aunts had gone to visit her and she had opened her eyes for a whole hours and looked at each of them. She had even put her had on my aunt's head when she asked for permission to go on holiday.
She is going to be fine .... I'm going to go see my nan at around 2pm today - hopefully she will get back to 100% soon.
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