Saturday evening at Mary Washington Hospital

David has had his dinner and is reading the local paper.  He had a good walk around the floor about 200 steps.  He did need oxygen to do it and will have to come home with oxygen.  It looks like he has fluid around his lungs and Lasix was prescribed to reduce fluid retention.  Otherwise he's had several breathing treatments with Albuterol but that does not seem to give the dramatic, immediate results that would indicate bronchial constriction.  By process of elimination it is looking like fluid retention, maybe heart failure, that can be treated so that he can come home tomorrow.  I have to teach on Monday between 8:30 and 2:30 so he will be on his own then but with a cell phone, a walker or cane and lots of urinal bottles strategically placed.  I almost prefer that he wait until late Monday to come home so that we could have all day Tuesday to get a routine established.  I only teach Monday and Wednesday in the summer, so I will be around a lot.