Outside Today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today was a notable day for Andrea, she was all bundled up in her Stryker Chair and her VAD doctor and nurse and a resident doctor took her outside, not sure when the last time was that she was outside, last fall sometime.  It was -4C or so and snowing very heavily which she really enjoyed.  She was only outside maybe 5 minutes at the most.  After that she was all played out and went back to bed for a good nap.  Mid afternoon she was up in a wheelchair for the first time since surgery, but something was very uncomfortable so she soon was back in bed.  Her stomach was in a lot of pain and around suppertime she threw up some bile which made her feel somewhat better.  Her Hemoglobin is dropping a little so maybe at night or early morning she will get a couple blood transfusions, she must be bleeding a little somewhere, not sure just where.  Tomorrow she will have another round of hemodialysis again.  She still has the drainage tube in place, xrays show that she still has a bit of fluid beside her right lung.  When that stops they will remove it.  We are still hoping she can have her trache removed soon, that is the breathing tube she has in her neck.  Today she was weaned completely from oxygen prongs in her nose, hopefully her oxygen sats will stay good.  Time for some sleep.

Goodnight, Maynard