Korea Update

An update of how Tita San is doing in Korea, courtesy of RJ:

From the 17th:

I am glad, once again, to bring more good news to you all - mom's finally off the respirator and back to regular oxygen again. Although I was only now able to read your [Roby] message about checking her oxygen, I will do so during our next visit in a few hours.

Mom wasn't really as responsive this morning - my guess is that they had just removed the respirator a couple of hours before we got there, so she must have been tired. She was sleepy, but did respond to some of our usual ICU antics. If you tickled her feet, she'd move her legs around, etc. She was also able to cross her legs and move around a little bit in her bed - probably to get more comfortable (she has been lying down for about 13 days now). I guess we'll know more about her recovery progress when we see her for the second time later today.

and later in the evening:

We had a great "conversation" with mom this evening. She was awake the whole time and she even waved to us when we stepped into the ICU. She was able to move all her extremities (a little better than before) and responded to all of our questions and kwentos with facial expressions as well as nods and shakes of the head. She even tried to speak on occasion - a task that proved to be difficult due to the oxygen mask over her mouth and nose as well as the feeding tube that was inserted through her nose - but she did try. I even tried to make out a couple of words from her lip movements and confirmed them by repeating them to her.

We did inform her that she was in Korea - much to her surprise - and that we hadn't been able to have a decent conversation with her for days. I also told her that everyone sends their love and are eagerly awaiting her arrival in Manila and I think she welcomed that with a smile (from what I could make out, at least). Overall, she looked better than anything we'd seen since we got here.

Oh, and I checked mom's O2 saturation and it showed a constant 100 on the machine. I assume that's a good thing :) And if it helps any, I think her vitals showed around 70-75 for ECG, a steady 20-25 for RESP, and the last time I looked at her BP, it was 118 over 72 (i think).

With our continued prayers, I'm sure mom will be able to come home in no time at all.

Praying and hoping that Tita San can come home soon. Lola has been chafing at the bit, wanting to go to her youngest daughter. Unerstandable, but really, there is nothing for her to do there. She can only visit Tita San in the ICU for a maximum of 30 minutes to an hour twice per day. That's it. As for the rest of the hours left in the day, she'll be bugging everyone else as to what she CAN do instead of resting. Sigh!

Once she gets her passport and her visa, then she can go, probably with either me or Rondic. But I'm hoping that we will be able to bring Tita San back home sometime next week.

{WEDDING UPDATE}

Randy and Stella are, I think, winding down on their wedding to-do lists. Most of the small details have been ironed out. All that needs to be done are the fittings for the suits and dresses, the guest list, the invitations to be sent, and the the seating arrangement. Other than that, I think everything's been done. Oh wait, they need the arrhae and the wedding rings, hehehe. But those shouldn't take too long to make.

They are also having my old room in La Vista renovated. It's a bigger room than what Randy has right now, and obviously, they'll have their own bathroom (they'd be sharing a bathroom with Rod if they stay in Randy's old room).

So they are having the room repainted --- no gold anything, thank goodness. The pouffy curtains and the valance boards are going to be taken down and replaced with more modern fixtures. The queen-sized bed will have an extension to make it a king-sized bed.

With them staying on at La Vista, that will be 3 Mr & Mrs Dizons living in the house. I wonder if they should each have a separate house marker of some sort to differentiate their mail? Hehehe. I wonder what they can do, short of having the maids deliver their mail to their doors? What if the letter or whatever just had "Mr & Mrs" on it? That would be so funny!

TTFN!