Timna News Bullet: Radiology pulled Timna's PICC line out when she was down for a CAT scan.
Timna News Bullet: Why was Timna down for a CAT scan? Because they found the food was not entering her small bowel like it was supposed to.
Timna News Bullet: For her birthday the hospital is giving timna a new PICC line. They are currently using her dialysis port to infuse her.
I sang for her this morning. She will have to wait to celebrate I pray to enjoy her birthday late.
Cerebral edema is something I was concerned about a couple of weeks ago when Timna was not reviving. I hadn't thought about it since...until today when the ICU doctor informed me that the CAT scan did show evidence of fluid pressure buildup.Cerebral edema! Happy B-day, Timna
12/02/09 @p337 Evening 7:47pm CT
Timna's 'corrective' surgery is on hold. The cerebral edema means it would be to dangerous to do a thorough periton cleaning/bowel repair.
Timna will have a CAT scan early in the am to see if there is improvement in the cerebrum. If so, they'll gut her.
Timna's Birthday Update Wednesday 12/2/2009 10:15-ish pm Eastern
Just a quick few notes before I go to bed.
Timna's CAT scan with dye injected into her feeding tube did indeed show that the food was going into the periton and not into her digestive system. Two and a half gallons of food wasted... Think of all the starving children in...
Now think of this, if you constantly adjust the insulin drip based on there being a constant food supply you'll have trouble controlling the blood sugar with the blood sugar going too low shutting off the drip and restarting the drip when the sugar bounces back up. I don't know for sure if this was a contributing factor to Timna's cerebral edema, maybe one of you could tell me.
I felt like shouting, "Lots'a food -- No stool -- C'mon Doctors put two and two together!
Dr. Ang wanted to do the surgery tonight to completely clean out Timna's periton with saline. I asked him to caution the anesthesiologist about Timna's cerebral edema... Dr. Ang made a few calls and told me that surgery would have to wait until tomorrow after another CAT scan of her head to see if the edema was lessening.
I think that if it is not lessening surgical pressure relief will be a more pressing matter. To neurology was one of the calls Dr. Ang made.
By @p337 11/30/09
As Timna starts her 31st day in the hospital she has been presented with the one month anniversary gift of a mutated strain of Pseudomonas
Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Gram Negative! The drug chosen to combat this bacterium is MICROMEDIX The untreated bug will kill her.
The treatment might kill her.
She's in isolation
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