Melinda did well all day and vitals stable. Melinda's potassium has been low but they are giving her meds. Dr. Brown is the infectious disease doctor and she performed some kind of test on the antibiotics and showed they were not compatible and changed it.
Melinda had a new picc line put in her left arm. A picc line is the same as an i.v. in your hand but this can be left in for long period of time. Dr. Huff wanted the picc line in Melinda's right arm taken out and sent off to lab. Dr. Huff wants to know how Melinda got another infection that started in her stomach and is now in her blood. Will not know the results for a couple of days. The report came back that the picc line in the left arm is not positioned correctly. Dr. Huff was called and he said go ahead and use it and he will decide tomorrow if he wants to do another picc line in the right arm or do a 3 picc line up by the collar bone.
Dr. Huff ordered Melinda to be weaned off the sedation slowly. If Melinda's oxygen, heart rate, blood pressure or breathing gets to high they will move the sedation back up. The neurons in her brain are healing and the brain is trying to figure out how to regulate everything. This will just take time. Thank you for all the prayers.
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Melinda,
ReplyDeleteBe strong now, because things will get better. It might be stormy now, but it can't rain forever.
I love you Little Sister, Britany loves her Aunt Melinda, and Bryan misses his sister-n-law