ok,
so it's thursday, and no one could get in touch with us all day wednesday...
funny story about that one!
(ok, not so funny, but there is a story)
yesterday, we had to go to B-North in the early afternoon for out-patient surgery so that they could put the port in for jackie's chemo.
(now there are two words that don't belong in the same sentence)
simple routine, they do it all the time.
well when they were putting in the guide, so they could use it to push the actual tubing, the wire brushed the atrium in the heart, and it triggered some atrial fibrillations!
(as jackie said, if there is a difficult way to do things, she will find it)
so, even though the port went in, and looked good on xray, and all that, they had to keep her in recovery, while they gave her meds to bring the rate down to a reasonable number.
of course the medicine worked, but then, following "Jackie's Axiom", it then dropped her blood pressure to an unsafe level.
so there was someone there at all times, monitoring the drip to make sure it was doing the right thing without doing the other wrong thing.
so basically at 8pm, they decided to send her up to telemetry for an over night stay, just to make sure the heart rate stay reasonable.
so, we spent the night, they monitored this, and that, and all the other stuff.
this morning, they x-rayed the port,
they did an echo-cardiogram,
(didn't give her breakfast, had to go door to door begging for food for her)
and now, around 3:00pm, the next day, we are finally home from our simple, hour-long, outpatient procedure!
needless to say, Jackie has no energy right now and is getting ready for a nap, but she is better than she was last night and this morning.
woo hoo!
and now,
it's nap time!
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namaste,
dab
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