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These are notes from Messenger.
8:19 a.m. I wrote: We are at the hospital and she is sound asleep. The doctors are worried about her blue feet and fingers. The nurses are checking for blood flow in her feet.
12:21 p.m. BF wrote: They are doing an ultrasound of her belly right now. They lowered her pressers. She still has three but they cut the dose in half. Her blood pressure is holding steady. I got her left hand nice and warm and gonna switch to the other side in a couple minutes.
I wrote: Is the blue color going away?
BF wrote: The right hand not so much but things are looking good. They’ve given her a sputum test to see what specific antibiotics she needs. Also they suctioned her lungs. The secretion is still slightly red but not as bad.
I wrote: Is the pneumonia still expanding? Does she have any more air space?
BF wrote: The doctor said the pneumonia is roughly the same and her air space has increased a little. As soon as the antibiotic needed is narrowed down to the right one we should see a big difference. They should know in an hour or so. ECG machine was brought in to check her heart. It looks okay. The right ventricle isn’t working as good as the left but the doctor wasn’t worried. The nurses are hoping to take out the needles in her right hand artery this evening after they see if her blood pressure stays the same. The blood pressure cuff and the one in her wrist are reading roughly the same so they were very happy.
2:38 p.m. BF wrote: She’s anemic and the doctor said she may need to be transferred to CMMC for dialysis if it’s not better tomorrow. She needs to be urinating 30 ml an hour and she’s roughly producing 16 ml.
3:04 p.m. I’m back at the hospital.
5:56 p.m. I wrote: She’s sleeping pretty good. The nurses positioned her again. She produced 80 ml urine.
7:18 p.m. BF back at hospital. He wrote: She was kind of with it and communicated that she was in discomfort when she was asked. Her vitals are good. Urine measured 250 ml for the 12-hour shift so that was roughly 21 ml an hour. She looks super peaceful. They gave her more fentanyl.
