Another night in the ICU

Well, during the 12-2 visit, Dr. Sachs came back by to visit. He gave her the bad news....she's got to stay in the ICU another night. Her drainage from her chest tube is still too high to remove it, however, it has gotten better every day.

She got up again and walked around the hall a bit, just about the same way as the first time. Then she followed that up by sitting in a chair for an hour. While she was in the chair, she had a little more problems with the IV again. They couldn't tell if it was infiltrated again or if it was right, but since they couldn't draw blood out of it, they decided to put in another one. This time they moved it up to the crease of her elbow on her right arm (the normal place people draw blood from). It seems to be strong and secure there, so hopefully it'll stay in place there. It's not really a big deal that she's had these problems, medically speaking, but I know it is making her hands and arms pretty sore. Just one more thing that hurts and that she has to deal with. The fluid that infiltrated on her right arm still hasn't all absorbed into her body, so it still looks very swollen. They say it could take anywhere from a day to almost a week for it to fully absorb, depending on how much fluid actually ended up leaking under her skin.

The 4-6 visit was pretty uneventful. She slept pretty much for two hours straight, only waking up one time for a few minutes. I'll have to admit, I caught a few Zzz's while she was sleeping. She woke up right around 6, before I left. She thought it was morning time, probably hoping that she had just slept through the entire night. She did a little breathing treatment thing and told me goodbye.

That's all there is for now. Hopefully my next update (probably after 10 am tomorrow) will have good news about that pesky ol' chest tube!