About 9 AM
Sometime after midnight Sandi's port in her chest closed off and stopped working. They had to de-access it which is when they pull the needle out of it and then try to re-access. While the needle came out easy enough, they had no end of trouble getting the new needle in. It took hours as they had to get nurses from other floors to come and try because her port was being so difficult. Around 7 am or so when one of the supervisors came on duty they had her do it as she has fought with it before and won. She came and managed to get into it. Once that was done they had to do multiple injections over a couple of hours into the port to open it up again.
Flow
into and out of the port has been reestablished. While all that was
going on her fever went above 103 so they had to do multiple ice baths
to try and get it down. She is still running fever this morning but more
in the 101 range for now.
She is not able to eat anything as she continues to have the dry heaves from time to time. Not to mention all the coughing and everything else going on. She is still having severe headaches which is due to the fever as well as the infection. She is also very weak and having a hard time staying focused.
Now that they have the port back open they have pulled more blood from her to run tests on and are sending another IV antibiotic onto her. If her fever stays low enough they will attempt again to give her another blood transfusion.
Later today Scott and I will go down and deliver laundry as well as pick up stuff from her. We don't have to bring any crocheting supplies as she has been unable to do anything at all. She has asked them if they plan on moving her to ICU and for now that is not planned. At least that is what she believes she was told.
Having been awake since 1am she is exhausted and hoping that they can do what they will and let her sleep.
About 3 PM
Just got home from the hospital. We were there for about thirty minutes. She was awake when got there but faded fast. She has had a little bit of food earlier today and has had some trouble keeping it down. Her fever is climbing again so they are holding off on the blood transfusion. Hopefully I will have a little better news tonight.
About 4 PM
She just called and said they have given her the premeds for the blood transfusion. So, she is about to be asleep for the next several hours. Hopefully she can get the blood deal today as her fever is just low enough right now to try this again.
About 8 PM
Okay, just talked to her and they got through the blood transfusion. Hopefully that will help. Right after that she started shaking and sweating and they discovered her blood sugar level was down to 46, so that meant no insulin for her, and instead the emergency shot to get it back up before she slipped into a coma. Fun times at the hospital tonight. She said everything was supposedly okay and she was going to go to sleep.
So that is where she is at as I have not heard from her again. Somehow, maybe because she has been sleeping so much, the premeds did not put her to sleep. She was very tired tonight when I talked to her so I hope she can sleep and have a quieter night than the last several.
She is not able to eat anything as she continues to have the dry heaves from time to time. Not to mention all the coughing and everything else going on. She is still having severe headaches which is due to the fever as well as the infection. She is also very weak and having a hard time staying focused.
Now that they have the port back open they have pulled more blood from her to run tests on and are sending another IV antibiotic onto her. If her fever stays low enough they will attempt again to give her another blood transfusion.
Later today Scott and I will go down and deliver laundry as well as pick up stuff from her. We don't have to bring any crocheting supplies as she has been unable to do anything at all. She has asked them if they plan on moving her to ICU and for now that is not planned. At least that is what she believes she was told.
Having been awake since 1am she is exhausted and hoping that they can do what they will and let her sleep.
About 3 PM
Just got home from the hospital. We were there for about thirty minutes. She was awake when got there but faded fast. She has had a little bit of food earlier today and has had some trouble keeping it down. Her fever is climbing again so they are holding off on the blood transfusion. Hopefully I will have a little better news tonight.
About 4 PM
She just called and said they have given her the premeds for the blood transfusion. So, she is about to be asleep for the next several hours. Hopefully she can get the blood deal today as her fever is just low enough right now to try this again.
About 8 PM
Okay, just talked to her and they got through the blood transfusion. Hopefully that will help. Right after that she started shaking and sweating and they discovered her blood sugar level was down to 46, so that meant no insulin for her, and instead the emergency shot to get it back up before she slipped into a coma. Fun times at the hospital tonight. She said everything was supposedly okay and she was going to go to sleep.
So that is where she is at as I have not heard from her again. Somehow, maybe because she has been sleeping so much, the premeds did not put her to sleep. She was very tired tonight when I talked to her so I hope she can sleep and have a quieter night than the last several.
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Having gone through something all too similar with Judy, I know how you're feeling about now. I wish there were something I could do, but you just have to keep hoping it will get better. And it does seem to be improving a tiny big. Baby steps.
I'm praying.
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