The Same

Today was about the same as yesterday in terms progress.  In the morning Andrea had another scope down her throat because the hemoglobin fell during the night, indicating that she was bleeding internally somewhere.  Because of the color of the stool they knew which area it had come from.  What they found  was that her stomach ulcers where they had put clips earlier actually looked better, and she had no clear bleeding anywhere, but her feeding tube which went through her stomach into the intestine, had pulled back and was rubbing around on the stomach wall and making it raw.  It also could be the heparin level being plenty high and making her stomach sore.  They stopped heparin and introduced something to lubricate and soothe the stomach wall.  She is getting a little stronger every day and we borrowed an IPAD from the children's heart society which she played around with a bit.  Right now she needs incentive, it has been over 5 weeks since she went into the CVICU.  We still don't know how much her liver or kidneys will recover.  All we can do is take it one day at a time.  The nurse who has her tonight had her the night just before her colon surgery, and she thought she was better than that night.  Please remember us, sometimes we are physically exhausted but still need to carry on.

Goodnight,Maynard