And here we go again...

Well, Nana's back in the hospital again.  She had been having difficulty breathing, and her body hasn't been flushing fluids efficiently.  Laura took her to see Dr. M today, and during the appointment Dr. M called the hospital and arranged for a regular hospital room.  At least Laura and Nana didn't have to wait for hours in the ER, just hours for the hospital to have a room available.

To add to the confusion, the admitting department has moved to a different building and the faxed admitting papers kept going to the wrong place.

One challenge was Nana's oxygen tank.  Laura took one tank with her, and the tank ran out during the admitting process.  The hospital employee handling the admission called over to have some nurses come and get Nana moved into her room.  Since the hospital is in the midst of opening a new building, the nurses initially got lost which added to the time.

Right now the plan is to get the excess fluid off of her, and then they'll probably schedule open heart surgery to replace her defective heart valves.  Both her mitral valve and her aortic valve are leaky.  This most likely means that Nana will have to go on dialysis afterwards due to her reduced kidney function.  There are so many variables right now, it's difficult to wrap our heads around it all.