Helo again! ?Well it is now Thursday and Amelia is making great strides. Yesterday was a big day for her. She steadily decreased her IV medications and by the end of the day she only had her pain medicine and IV fluids. She was feeling like moving a bit and sat up in the bed, but decided that wasn’t enough and stood up for a couple of minutes.
Time passed and she decided that sitting up wasn’t a bad thing and spent over an hour in the chair watching TV. That wore her out, but was very good. She even decided to go for a walk down the hall last night.
They have been working on her blood pressure too. She was really high, then the meds kicked in, then she got low (normal for most of us) and then has crept up again. They are struggling to find the right balance of medication to get her blood pressures in the normal (for her) range.
With all of the IV’s being stopped, they are switching her to oral pain meds this morning as well. That will make it easier for her overall. It will also be better for her pain control and will allow her to get out of the ICU. They are planning on her leaving the ICU and going to the floor this afternoon.
She is doing really well, she looks better and is feeling a bit more like herself. Her labs are going in the right direction and her 2 main kidney labs are now lower than they have been for a couple of years. That is really good.
That is what we know for now. When is she going to go home? NOt sure at this point, it will depend on her blood pressure and other labs. Personally, I don’t see it happening before Monday at the earliest, but stranger things have happened, and it could be over weekend, or into the latter parts of next week. It would take a crystal ball, the position of the stars, and possibly a sacrifice to know for sure at this point. Since I am not prepared to do any of that, we will see.
**In the midst of witing this post, we actually moved out of the ICU!. She is on the transplant floor and currently getting a shower. Things are going well.
Still coming to you live, 2 days into the new kidney,
-Justin
