"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.

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Dialysis and a Little More Pump Trouble

Hi everyone
 
Today was a fairly good one for Andrea, dialysis started around noon which was a little later than usual.  She was having some abdominal pain and was a little afraid of getting up, but with the help of PT she stood on a big scale beside her bed.  She had another pump event today which was suction related, probably because dialysis took off too much fluid and dried her out too much.  Now they want to weigh her every morning at  the same time on the same scale to be able to better establish her weight trends, and how dialysis is affecting her.  They immediately started her on fluid IV and the pump issue straightened out.  They had been weighing her with the bedscale until now, but who knows how accurate that is, and there are too many variables involved, pillows or blankets on the bed etc.  Tomorrow they want to see if she is able to take a few tiny steps between the parallel bars.  We also were told to have her eat at least something 3 times a day, a little hard to find something appetizing in the hospital, especially since she is not hungry.  I guess it is baby steps, baby steps.... together they add up to something though.
 
Goodnight, Maynard

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