Wednesday Night

It's late and I am still awake. I should be getting some sleep since I am home but I just can't seem to will body to relax right now.

When we left the hospital tonight mom was completing her last bag of IV fluids. They pumped her with about 5 liters in the past 15 hours in the hopes of stimulating her kidneys to make urine. All she is doing is holding onto fluid. Her stomach is so big she looks pregnant to me and her hands/fingers are 3x their normal size. She also still had a fever.

I spoke to her nurse at 11 o'clock tonight and she said that the fluids had still not worked, mom still has no urine. She said that a diuretic was ordered and would be tried soon. If that doesn't work, the last resort is dialysis. One doctor last night said that she is too weak for that though. So we are really holding our breath in the hopes that mom will be able to get urine out tonight.

The nurse also said she had a difficult time keeping mom saturated tonight. Every few hours they change her position. When they do her oxygen level drops from 94-95 to the upper 70s-mid 80s. That means there is compression her lungs, probably due to fluids. The result will be less movement of now.

The doctors are concerned that mom seems so dependent on the ventilator. She is receiving 100% and still only at an average of 94%. We were told this morning that her condition is still critical. Tomorrow morning when we see the doctors we are sure they are going to be asking for either consent to try dialysis or asking for some very difficult decisions to be made. Either way we will feel helpless and scared.

I am off to get some rest now. Thank you as always for your prayers and good wishes.