Overall I thought Lydia looked much better that she did the last time I saw her. She has lost quite of bit of the water weight--I particularly noticed that in her hands and arms and legs and feet. She twitched her feet every now and and opened her eyes occasionally, it was good to see some movement. I was amazed at how much liquid is being drained off of the area around the new liver.
On occasion her blood pressure has had some high spikes but then it drops back to normal quite quickly. This caused the medical people to think she may be having seizures, so they ordered an EEG to check that. She was on the EEG machine for about 5 hours today and according to the nurse there was nothing irregular with the test--so she evidently is not having seizures, which is a good thing. That still leaves the question of why is the blood pressure doing what it is. Hopefully whatever is causing it to spike is not serious. They removed the head wrap after they completed the EEG and she had tape and some gooey stuff in her hair, the nurse tried to get her hair back to normal but it's not quite there yet. I didn't have a camera so there are no pictures today.
Tomorrow morning she gets the shrink wrap and sponge bandage off. The plan is that they will partially close her up again--so I don't know if she will have another sponge and more shrink wrap or not after the surgery. Hopefully everything will go well with tomorrows procedure.
I very much appreciated all the medical people did for her today, I thought they were very attentive. It was nice to see them rubbing her face and gently talking to her while they were working on her. I hope she heard their kind words and my words of love for her too.
Once again, thanks to all who are helping in any way--that includes the many prayers being offered.
Linda C (Grandma)
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Spenc and Lydia enjoying some brocolli (at least the taste of it for Lydia since she just sucks out the flavor and spits it out)
Thank you so much, Linda Clead, for this wonderful post about Lydia's day today. It is so good to hear the small but significant improvements. You are a wonderful Grandma and friend. I am sure thankful to all the good medical help she has too. What a blessing.
ReplyDeleteOh dear, the stress of having a sick child. We are following Lydia's progress closely and appreciate the the updates. Any little improvement is by the grace of God and we have faith that Lydia will be well. We hope and pray that her progress will be steady. With love, Bonnie and Brent Barnum(LuLu's grandparents)
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