After a bad night and having a breathing tube installed and removed, Nana had a pretty rough day. Let's see...she had some visitors, which is a good thing. Our pastor stopped by for a visit, as well as some of her friends. Nana was in and out of sleep today, and it seemed that she was waking up with fresh memories of her dream as she would say things like she was falling out of the chair, or that the cough drop was on the bed.
She had a PICC line installed this afternoon. It's a lot more invasive than a port, but it should make it easier for the nurses to draw blood or administer needed drugs without having to jab her with another needle.
Laura said that the high doses of diuretic that she'd been given wasn't getting the extra fluids off of her like they should. Nana's kidneys aren't getting enough blood to remove the fluid. Nana decided that she wanted to go through dialysis to help her kidneys out. When Laura left tonight, they had come to install the catheters to hook Nana up to the dialysis machine. They did start the dialysis sometime tonight. Aunt D was there and stayed with Nana until 10:45pm. She said that Nana was doing okay with the dialysis and that it didn't hurt her.
Laura came home just before 7pm, and pretty much crashed. She'd been at the hospital with Nana since around 10am. Hopefully tonight will be better and tomorrow will be better still.
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