Good Evening
Today was another good one for Andrea. We went down to the physiotherapy gym for her to use the parallel bars, I pushed the wheelchair between them and she walked between the bars from one end nearly to the other end 3 times, a total of 35 feet, with very little assistance from the physiotherapist at all. If she is feeling this good on Monday she will start Andrea out with a walker and see how she does. In the afternoon she was up in the dialysis clinic again. As she becomes more mobile and activity increases, it becomes more of a balancing act to remove the correct amount of fluid. This is especially true in her case because of the pump, it can run a little low on the intake side from a lack of volume, meanwhile it maintains a constant speed and circulation is the same as if she would be walking around or excercising. Andrea is the first patient with a VAD to go up there for dialysis, so it is a bit of a learning curve for all involved, extra training was needed etc, hopefully things will work a bit better in the future. We hope to have her here in the RMH tomorrow and overnight till Sunday night. I think we are more prepared now and she is stronger too, maybe the weather will warm up so we can go out a bit. Now it is time for bed.
Goodnight, Maynard
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