Hi. Linda had a less than great day. She suffered a nose bleed at 4AM and the bleed lasted 4 hours! The nose bleed was a product of the prescribed Plavix, which is a blood thinner, and irritation of the nasal passageways on the part of the oxygen system, which includes a nasal tube. She was able to get back to sleep this morning, but, once she was up, she had trouble functioning well without the aide of oxygen. In addition, the medical staff took Linda off IV diuretics and gave her oral diuretics, and, the oral means was not efficient and led to less evacuation of of fluid from her lungs. The staff made these changes to her treatment as efforts to have Linda ready to go home, where IV systems are not realistic and oxygen is difficult to deal with. Today, in response to the problems noted today, the staff increased her oral diuretic dosage and applied her oxygen at a reduced pressure rate. I think we were all a little too optimistic about Linda's status, based on how well she did yesterday.
Good news, includes the fact that her wound continues to heal at a good rate and her surgery, in fact, repaired her, here-to-fore, defective heart valve; no signs of leakage and blood pressure is within normal limits. Linda continues on a liquid diet and her abdomen is softer, and, Linda does not experience the abdominal pressure against her lungs that she felt earlier last week.
So, tomorrow, we will look at how Linda is doing and look at a slower process ( slower than the means initially used today ) to assist Linda in being able to go home. Until tomorrow, John
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