As I wrote in an earlier update, Mary Jo's blood counts are going down. Her vitals showed a WBC of .3 this morning. As her blood levels are going down, her frustration level with still being in the hospital is growing.
She finished receiving all of her stem cells today. So, the only thing keeping her in the hospital is getting her pulse rate under control. It went up in the 140's a couple of times today when she got up to go to the bathroom. They are going to bump up the heart medicine that they are giving her from 120mg to 180mg to try to lower her resting heart rate which has been usually in the 90's.
I am not so sure that this isn't something that she had before we started all of this, but no one was monitoring. Her primary care doctor prescribed blood pressure medicine for her a few years ago without any sort of testing, but it did lower her blood pressure. Her doctor had her taking her blood pressure every day to she if they needed to change her blood pressure medicine, and her heart rate was usually in the 90's.
I am thinking this may have been a condition that she has had for awhile and the chemo and other drugs, along with, the extreme diarrhea that she had for several days, not eating properly, and not getting a good night's sleep in the hospital, in addition to the stress of what she is going through hasn't exacerbated a pre-existing condition. I'm not sure if they will want to continue monitoring her in the hospital with the 180mg medicine, or not. The outpatient stem cell center is a lot more engaging socially. Than, sitting in a hospital room with no one to talk to, except for your nurse and your caregiver. Hopefully, she will be discharged and we can start going back there again soon.
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