"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.

Monday, May 2, 2011

"Normal" Dialysis Resumes

Good Evening
 
Andrea's day was similar to yesterday, awake most of the day, not sure whether she actually slept when she was to nap or not. Her plasmafree hemoglobin number was 53 yesterday morning,83 this morning and this afternoon 93, so it has gone up only marginally since her last plasmaphoresis on Friday.  She was up in the wheelchair and later on sat on the edge of her bed for 15 minutes.  She needs to keep on moving so that she does not lose more strength, we can see that she has not gone forward in that area this last 10 days or so.  Today her continuous dialysis was stopped and tomorrow she will get the regular hemodialysis in her room.  If she tolerates that well and other numbers are normal enough, she should move back up to the ward in the next few days.  Until next time, Goodnight.
 
Regards, Maynard

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