Today Erica had a good day! She weighed in at 3480 Kilo's. They decided in the morning that they were no longer going to extubate her as the cardiologist were sure that they wanted to do the MRA (which apparently should have been the test to do in the first place) They are positive that this test will help them see her veins clearer to make a diagnosis and a plan. So Erica is booked in for her MRA Monday at 2:30.
They also did a few more echo's, a brain scan, an X-ray, and an ultrasound on her arteries in her right leg/groin as her right leg was cold and not getting good O2 levels. (this was also the side that they did the Angiocath procedure on)
She ended up getting a clot in the artery that they did the angiocath on, so they decided they wanted to put her on a blood thinner to help reduce the clot from getting bigger and help her to break it down. However they read in the notes from a Res Dr. in Regina that on Nov 14th, 2011 Erica had a brain scan and she had a small brain bleed on her right side, with involuntary leg movements. (She did involuntary leg movements with both legs, they associated it with PLMD or seizure activity, as a few movements ranging from .5 to 5 second long is normal however if it lasts longer {which hers lasted much longer about 20-30 sec or more}, this movement could have also been caused by medications also. ) We knew nothing however of the brain bleed, and Dr. Joynt said not to worry as they did say it was small and it was probably nothing to worry about. They did the brain scan and it was all good! No more brain bleed :) So with the "small brain bleed" out of the way they were able to order the blood thinners for her clot.
Erica also didn't have much urinary output today so they decided to do a x-ray to see if she had wet lungs or if the stenosis was getting worse. Luckily it was the better of the two (Wet Lungs) so they gave her more lasics.
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