Jeanne moved to the ICU
Friday night Jeanne moved to the Intensive Care Unit as a precaution. She has been using a lot of energy breathing, and they are able to better monitor her condition in the ICU. With the more intense monitering they have been able to fine tune the settings on her BiPap machine, and she is weak but stable.
She was also moved because there is concern that the amount of energy she is using to breath is not sustainable. If she gets too tired to breath well before the the pneumonia is better, going on a ventilator will give her lungs and body a chance to rest while she continues to fight off the infection. The hope is that she won't need to go on a ventilator, and the better monitering in the ICU will help give the information needed for her to make that desicion before it becomes a crisis.
posted by Jeanne's_BMT @ 7:50 AM
13 Comments:
Hey, even with no hair, you are pretty good looking!!
Much luck and good wishes!!
Sylvia
love and warmth and feisty power! xoxo
I cannot believe that there was power failure amidst of the craziness. Keep up the fighting spirit. If anyone can do it, you can.
Love
Lily H
Sapporo
Jeanne -
thinking of you and sending light and love -- Abby
Jeanne -
My thoughts are with you and your family.
-Love Suzie
My thoughts and prayers remain with you and your whole family. All last week and the weeks to come. This is scarey stuff. I'm glad to know that you have so many resources to draw on, including all that time coaching breathing!
I'm so sorry that the CMV got a hold, and I hope it is vanquished very soon.
With much love and respect for your strength, as well as Justina, Josh and John,
-Linda Diane
Dear Jeanne:
Lots of love and positive vibrations coming your way. Please stay focused with your determination. We are with you always.
Lily H
Sapporo
Thinking of you every day. Hope you will be home long before I get back to A2 on May 26. Lots of love from Maryann
Dear Jeanne,
I'm thinking and praying for you daily. With your courage and determination, you will be out of ICU soon, I know it. Hopefully this will guide your medical team in finding the ways to help you get better soon, and home where you belong. I can't wait for that day to arrive, and I'm sending boat loads of positive energy your way. Talk to you and see you soon.
Hugs,
G
Hi, Jeanne, Jon, Josh, Josina. I just got back from visiting Pris and Ken and of course they send their love. I hope that the beauty and rejuvenation of Spring flood your body and spirit. See you soon, mog
Dear Jeanne:
Thinking of you every day, wishing your body breath and strength to fight the infection. I wonder what you think about everything. I always love our conversations about how thing REALLY are.
John, Josina and Josh:
Thinking about you right along with Jeanne, sending all four of you lots of love and affection, hoping that the infection can quit and you can all get some rest.
Love, Daniela.
Thurs. May 4. Hi. Jeanne, I am thinking about you as I marvel at this gorgeous spring day. I look forward to enjoying the flowers and trees and birds with you. Love, mog
Thank you Jon for thinking to call me to tell me of Jeanne's passing. I am grieving deeply as you must be, and Josh and Josina. I feel her hovering above us, still of this world, for these moments so soon after her leaving. This is her bright and wondrous spirit in our hearts and minds. I believe this is how a spirit lives on after death; in the minds of those who remember, perhaps in that collective archetypal unconscious we join to nourish her living spirit, a spirit will live as long as someone is left who remembers.
Dear Jeanne. I have so many memories I will never forget. Now I cry but later I will cherish these memories and find joy at having had Jeanne in my life. As you know, we met each other and shared a house in Berkeley and Oakland when we were so young. I loved her right away, the one-on-one talks we had that continued off and on over many years. Her questions and thoughts were so intimate and such a pleasure. I was always stimulated to go beyond my beyond. I thank her for many things. Most of all when I came to live with her in NY City in 1972-73. She was in nursing school and it was there at Downstate that she met Jon. I was tattered and torn and hopeless. She picked me up just by being her, and most precious, she showed me that I could redefine the possible and the probable. I watched her work. She was so dedicated, she worked so hard and I wanted to be a person like Jeanne. I have been able to do many things because of that time learning from her, how. We haven't talked for a few years. This has happened before and we would always reconnect again. I hope I can hear about these past few years of hers by talking later with Jon and Josh and Josina. He professional world was not my world: I heard what she shared with me being an outsider. Jeanne was not egocentric so I learned much from reading this blog (and I'm not done yet.) Thanks to all who are contributing.
I am again in a difficult time and I have not been able to work very much. I have had many conversations about why, never finding a satisfying answer. Instead, I will try to rededicate myself to work in Jeanne's honor, the way I once aspired to be like Jeanne. I will look hard to find that desire still there. She worked so hard and so selflessly, through all of her tribulations with this illness that came in 1992 and finally took her from a world that needs her. From dear Jon and Josh and Josina. I love all of you and wish you to find comfort. I think you will find it in time, as you continue to honor her with your lives and aspirations. She will smile upon you and be proud and thankful, as is her way.
Now I will talk to her living spirit, what she has left for us to keep.
Pat
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