Rounds start at 9:00 am. So we got up fairly early to grab our coffee's and walk to the hospital. Which only took roughly 20-25 mins
They decided to do an echo today which was to be an hour long, an ECG and blood work. They found on her blood work that she picked up an anti-body, quite possibly from the blood transfusion she got on Friday's Cath procedure. She got the Anti-Lutheran Antibody which only 9% of the population has, good news is that it's passive and her body will eventuaally kill it off, but it would probably take about 3 months for that to happen. They could give her something to help her fight it off faster, however it's not safe with her heart condition. So with surgery in our near future, they needed me to get blood work done to make sure that it was from the transfusion and not from me. They need to know this so that if she needs another transfusion they can get the right blood so she can fight it and it not destroy her red blood cells.
We were told that we'll more then likely get the decision on what test to do next tomorrow, as they are thinking the next best test would be an MRA (which they didn't have the machines to do one on her in Saskatchewan), so off to bed we go to prepare for another big day tomorrow.
MRA (Angiogram with an MRI)
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