Guest Writer
July 23, 2018
During these first few days of visiting the hospital and checking in at work and keeping up with household stuff, none of us ate or slept very well. The doctors encouraged us to take care of ourselves.
We scheduled our lives so we could be in ICU when the doctor did his rounds in the morning with all staff and reported on each patient. We were part of Dana’s morning report.
Someone shared the Navy SEALs breathing technique called “Box Breathing” or “4x4x4” to calm down in stressful situations and I often found myself using it.
You can Google it, but here’s one brief how-to: www.healthline.com/health/box-breathing/.
Throughout the day and night she kept opening her eyes like, “Oh, hi,” and then going back to sleep. She was unable to move about on her own and still had arm restraints. Most of the time when she was re-positioned by the nurses, her BP would drop.
