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Pullman Regional Hospital - Monday April 5, 2021

  These entries will be a bit odd as I (Jess) will be transcribing text messages from Dusty of the events as they happened and he had time to reach out to myself and the family. I will have him come back and edit/add more when he can.  8:33 a.m.  Dusty:  Dusty back on site at PRH. Checking with Sam (Nurse), BiPAP system worked and Joyce "back to normal" 8:49 a.m.  Dusty:  ICU is short staffed today. Sam is being assisted by LCSC nursing student intern. Alyssa today. Joyce is very responsive and back to what family would recognize as baseline normal. Joyce knows who Dusty is but cannot recall which of her sons is the oldest. 8:50 a.m.  Dusty:  Sam informed Dusty that the BiPAP was kept on Joyce until about the time she returned to cover morning ICU shift. 8:54 a.m.  Dusty:  BP 155/67     Pulse 82     Oxygen level 90%     CO2 saturation 19     Joyce responding to interrogatives and able to talk fairl...