"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.

Monday, January 31, 2011

Throwing Up

Well it has been a very quiet day for us, Andrea slept about 4 hours starting shortly before lunch.  She threw up quite abit again this afternoon, just bile from her stomach, as her feeding tube is put in further down into the next part of the system.  They say there is nothing going into the stomach orally, first the trache needs to come out, a swallow study done, and when they have proof that she can swallow without aspirating, the food she swallows should carry out the bile with it.  We expect the trache to come out tomorrow if all goes well.  those that have experience with the trached patient, say that usually there is a very dramatic improvement in their recovery.  We sure hope so, it seems that she has been slowed because of it. That's all till tomorrow night, thanks.
 
Regards, Maynard

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