"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.

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Slept Most of the Day

Good Evening
 
Well Andrea had another day in the CVICU, not just where we would like her to be and not the kind of recovery we were hoping for, yet there have been some small advances in her situation.  Today after the plasmaphoresis treatment her plasma free hemoglobin number was down to 164 from a high of 2500 on Friday, normal is less than 50.  Not sure what the lactate number was but i think it is improved, her bilirubin is up over 200 again, an indication of stress to the liver.  The other blood values I don't know about, I think in general they were improved.  She slept most of the day because they gave her 3 doses of Fentenyl a pain killer at night and another one again in the morning.  For her liver's sake she should not have gotten any, so we will see what they do about pain medication tomorrow.  We hope she will sleep through the night as she slept so much today.  CT scans don't show anything anywhere, her blood vessels in her liver all appear clear and no sign of a clot anywhere.  Don't know what else to report so will close, goodnight.
 
Thanks, Maynard

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