"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 9, 2011

"Pain-filled Day"

Good Evening
 
Another long day at the hospital has come to a close, back at RMH now, Andrea was not asleep when we left as she usually is.  Today was another pain filled day for her, Codeine does not agree with her and so her stomach bothered her a lot, headache seemed more intermittent today.  They were more prompt with pain medication and so she slept most of the day off and on.  Consequently her blood pressure was on the low side which also contributes to fatigue.  We did have her sit up on the edge of her bed for 5 minutes, long enough to brush her teeth and comb her hair.  She seemed a bit more upbeat than yesterday too, which is a good thing.  They also did a run of plasmapheresis today, her plasma free hemoglobin number was a lot lower than yesterday too which is a good sign.  Tomorrow the plan is to do another run of plasmapheresis again and hopefully her plasmafree number will stay down.  Tuesdaay they plan on starting her on heparin again so will have to see how that goes.  Now it is late so goodnight.
 
Thanks, Maynard

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