Peggy's Eyes, ERICA attempts, and the BATTERY (argh!)

Today I spent all day in Peggy's room working on her ERICA computer. I cleaned it off (it was buried in mosquito coils, old mail, and other crap), organized her files, updated and repaired her whole system, fixed up her email, imported a bunch of contacts in her email address book. Of course in doing this, I may have erased some of her email - oops! Sorry Peggy. So if you have sent her anything super important via email recently you may want to resend it. I also screwed up the internet connection, but was lucky enough to get Dr.Davis on his cell phone and he helped me reset up her connection (called "raffles").

We spent a good hour trying to get her on ERICA, but unfortunately it kept failing. It doesn't work when her eyes are "burning" and dry and so we had quite a hard time. This is the first time she has tried ERICA in a few months I think. It started to work better once we got her eyes lubed up, but we had a visitor come just when her eyes started getting better - so we stopped. To be clear, this seems to be a dry-eye issue and not an ocular movement issue. Of course, the dry eye is caused by the fact that she can't close her eyes. Her eye movement seems strong enough for ERICA to work, we just need to work on giving her more eye drops...So, PLEASE give Peggy Refresh "Gel" drops as often as you can. Every 30 minutes at least, more often if possible. We'll see if this helps with ERICA. We'll keep trying.

HERE'S THE SCOOP ON THE BATTERY: I called Respiratory today and got Debbie to bring us our back up battery along with a new charger. Thanks to Pat Gamble's comment on my post, I saw that the battery we had was not charging all the way. Also, when I went to check on it - it was very HOT! You could have fried an egg on it! When I told Respiratory they said that means it must be the charger, so along with the extra battery they brought us a new charger! Sounds great, right? Well, when Debbie tried to test the battery we have (the hot one, remember?) she discovered that the new charger wasn't working - argh!

So - Debbie has taken with her the broken charger, the new charger that doesn't work, and the old hot battery. She left us with a NEW fully charged battery that will give us 4-6 hours and will be bringing back a new charger tonight or tomorrow. Phew! OK, so that's where we're at.

Please note, poor Debbie slipped on the ramp when she came, so please be careful - it is very slippery out there.

Elileen from HCA called and said that she will be bringing Peggy's oxydose tomorrow. I called to let HCA know that they have to bring Baza cream - they will bring it by tomorrow.

Also - "Rochelle" from Healthcare Alternatives will be training tonight 10pm to 10am and through next week. So if you see a new face, please introduce yourself!

We had some nice visitors today. Suzanne Maurer dropped by and hung out for while. Also, a delightful woman named Harinani Orme came to visit and share her artwork with Peggy. She does amazing acrylic paintings of Hawaiian portraits. She gave Peggy a gorgeous print of a Hawaiian mermaid because she dreamed of Peggy swimming.