I have just read over my blog from late last night and I want to apologize... I was a whiner. Shame on me. We have been so blessed. We have had some very interesting turn of events today. After rounds last night, Mom's cardiologist ordered another chest xray and ultrasound. He came in all smiles this morning and announced, "we have decided to keep you a while longer!" That is the something to smile about? It seems that the tests showed significant fluid build up in the pleura (the area between the chest wall and lungs) and not allowing her lungs to properly inflate. This fluid is not an unexpected occurance after a being on heart-lung bypass and generally works its way out but in Mom's case, it just was happening quickly enough. "We can take care of this" Dr Hammer explains (great name for a cardiologist isn't it?). Pretty soon she will have another ultrasound to locate the best location for the thoracentesis.On another bright note our "Do Not Disturb" sign worked like a champ! Mom finally got a full 8 hours of sleep. What a difference it made. She feels so much better.
Here come another flurry of docs. More later...
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