"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.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Dialysis Day

 It is very cold out with wind chill about -35C.  So thankful for warm hospitals, houses, cars, etc.  Andrea had a good weekend, today was dialysis so she spent a lot of the time in bed and quite cold from the process of removing the wastes out of her blood.  She woke up with a very sore belly, took some pain killer and it mostly went away, not quite sure what is the cause of it, most likely muscle pain.  I forgot to mention that her bilirubin was down to 63 today, so it is approaching the level she was before her VAD surgery.  The whites of her eyes are nearly normal again, skin color is also much improved.  Tomorrow we hope to take her down to PT again, get her standing up in the parallel bars, doing some OT with her hands.  I forgot to mention that yesterday afternoon we took her up to 5th floor for the chapel services, first time in about 4 months.  Service is roughly a half hour and she managed very well, good to have her out again in a more normal setting.  It will be a real challenge to get her eating again, her nutritional needs are all met with tube feeds, so she is not usually hungry,  we'll just have to see how that goes.  I'm making lots of typing mistakes, hence a lot of correcting so I'll quit for now.  Sweet dreams to all.
 
Thanks, Maynard 

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