8-15-11 830pm
Nina is good in the vitals area. She is moving her arms around raising them up. There isn’t any real direction to the moves.
She is being given a lot of fluids and is starting to move urine and hopefully a lot of toxic material along with it. She is getting saline and a sodium solution. Her sodium level is 150 in her body. They are putting more in of the same amount to balance the sodium level as she urinates. Yea, I don’t completely understand it.
Her breathing is puffy at times but staying consistant at 14-15.
Today I was given a lot of information by a lot of people and am tiring to decifer it.
She has opened her eyes some but not enough to regonize us.
Paul
A boring day is a good day
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Nina’s Oncology Doctor in Akron
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Nina 8-15-11 440pm
Nina is still showing good vitals. She is getting the feed tube put down even further. The reason for this is so any food she may get will be delivered to her intestine bypassing the stomach and lessening her chance to vomit which could cause the lungs to fill up with fluid.
They have given her the last dosage for reducing the ammonia in her system. Two days we need to wait.
I moved a drain bag today that goes to her liver. It has been laying flat and my theory is much like a drain pipe at home. If it does not have the correct pitch on it eventually it will dry leaving a bit of residue at the end of the drain. Over time this will close off and next thing you know you are in the street on your hands and knees unclogging it.
I have watched this since they put it in and it is flushed every day. But if it had a chance to dry laying flat flushing will not get it all. So I moved it and in 2 hours watched as the drain went from black to a clearer liquid with these dry chunks flowing down. If it is moved I’ll move it back. If the liver cannot drain all those toxins go right into her system. It is not medicine but basis plumbing. Not all medical persons have every experienced or repaired a blocked storm drain
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This is Tyler and Anna and we made Dad this site so that his updates for all of you will be easier. Hopefully we will be able to show him how to use it so he can figure it out even after we have gone. The idea is that he won’t have to mess with copying the entire list of emails that he would like the message to go to. Instead you will get the link for this in your emails and can then save it on your favorites list or however you would like to do it and check the website periodically to get your updates. The email system for him can get time consuming and frustrating when something happens and everything vanishes that he spent a lot of time working on. Hopefully, this will cause less stress on him and can then in turn give him more time to spend with Nina (even if it is just a couple minutes that this will save) or he could write more updates. Either way this should help if we explain it to him well.
Thank you for all of your continued support, we appreciate it.