Friday, February 03, 2006
T.G.I.F.
Sherry is off from the doctors till Monday and Jenny spent last night so today they did the mommy daughter "Mag Mile" thing then back to the burbs for the both of them. Sherry goes back to Lombard to spend some quality time with Snuggles and Jenny.
Michele had another tough day today. The doctors decide she needed the dialysis and got her started today for 2 hours. To be hooked up to the dialysis machine Michele had to have another PIC line installed - this one into her neck. A small surgical (to Michele) procedure that puts 2 ports on the outside of her neck and the other end a tube about 10 inches down towards her heart. She (of course) handled this with out blinking an eye. They had her on the machine for 2 hours and and cycled 18 liters of blood(I think that's like all her blood 6 times). During this process she lost about 5 pounds.
There is 3 hours of dialysis for planned for Saturday and nothing for Sunday so we're trying to talk her in to coming home for the night. She's a little worried being that far from the hospital but I think we can do it
Michele had another tough day today. The doctors decide she needed the dialysis and got her started today for 2 hours. To be hooked up to the dialysis machine Michele had to have another PIC line installed - this one into her neck. A small surgical (to Michele) procedure that puts 2 ports on the outside of her neck and the other end a tube about 10 inches down towards her heart. She (of course) handled this with out blinking an eye. They had her on the machine for 2 hours and and cycled 18 liters of blood(I think that's like all her blood 6 times). During this process she lost about 5 pounds.
There is 3 hours of dialysis for planned for Saturday and nothing for Sunday so we're trying to talk her in to coming home for the night. She's a little worried being that far from the hospital but I think we can do it
