Mary was pretty much ok until 9:30ish this morning. Then she clearly went into a difficult period affecting her cognitive abilities and expressing a desire to get out of bed and go.
They are running some super duper blood tests looking for build up of stuff that could cause this. And to be sure, they ran a CT scan of her head. It was negative for problems.
Mary's appearance is bloated. Clearly she has a build up of fluids in her body. The hypothesis is that the remaining 20% of the liver is not keeping up with the intake of chemistry and meds so they have turned everything off and are running the one remaining IV drip at 1/2 or 1/3rd of yesterday'ss rate. The kidneys appear to be fine so it isn't a kidney problem.
As a precaution, they are moving her to a monitor room so the nursing staff can continuously monitor vitals and more. The bottom line is that they must figure out how to balance her intake with the liver's ability to filter and cleanse the blood stream. The nurse just reported that the metrics for her liver are good so that is a positive sign.
I will keep you posted.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
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