Just returned from Andrea's bedside, it has gotten very cold again, -30C this morning, should warm up by the weekend. Well the day had it's good and bad, good news her trache came out today, the bad news was that she had a new PIC line installed. Pump doctor thought it was arranged she would be given medazallam which is a very light sedation, just enough to sleep and she would not remember or feel the pain as it was going in. The doctor who put it in insisted that would require an anesthetist, her blood pressure might drop, etc etc so they only gave her local freezing and she has enough scar tissue already, so it was very painful for her. Usually dialysis is done, starting with setting up at 7 bells, but they had an overload of patients to do, so hers was not done till the afternoon. As I have mentioned earlier, she gets very cold from it, so after she warmed up she went to sleep for a few hours. One other good point is that her bilirubin was down to 150 this morning. I think in order for her to progress more they are going to need to pursue her pain control more aggressively, they started her on a fentenal 72 hour, 12 mg patch for pain control. hopefully that will take off the edge more effectively. That's all for tonight, thanks for reading my nightly epistle.
Regards, Maynard
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