"We Love Andrea" was created to update Andrea's friends as she went through a difficult journey. After her second heart transplant when her pulse began to speed up she was given a pacemaker, then a Heart Mate II or LVAD. She was in the Stollery Children's Hospital, then the Mazankowski heart unit in Edmonton, Alberta for 7 months. However, she peacefully died on May 11, 2011 when the rest of her heart and other organs could handle the strain no longer. If you come to this blog, pray for her family and friends, remember to tell your friends you love them, then sign your organ donor card.

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Sitting Up More


Good Evening
 
Hope all of you are inside on this cold night.  Andrea was in the Stryker chair today for an hour and spent all of it in the healing gardens on 4th floor.  She sure enjoyed that.  The drainage tube that was installed yesterday was hardly draining at all, but it gives her a lot of pain at times.  Today she seemed more alert again after having two consecutive nights of good sleep.  Sitting up in that chair seems to help clear her lungs quite well, and tomorrow morning she will have had her trache capped for 72 hours, although at times she is getting a little oxygen via her nose prongs.  The days activities sure tire her out so that helps to get a good night's rest, which is what we are needing and planning to get soon.  Goodnight
 
Thanks, Maynard

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