The good news for the day is that her labs to determine liver function from this morning look better than yesterday, and she is off from one of the heart medications she was on (Vasopressin) and she is now only on a tiny bit of Epi (0.02). She is still on Milrinone, but no one is talking about weaning that at this time. It appears that she probably has a blood clot in her leg from where they tried to put an arterial line in after she coded. They have started her on a Heparin drip to hopefully clear this up.
They attempted to take her off from Vecuronium this afternoon, and it didn't really go very well. She tried to over-breathe the ventilator, and when she did, her SATs dropped drastically, so she was given more Vec. Also, when she was off from the Vec, she did not have much intentional movement of her limbs (possibly some, but not much), she cried much of the time, and she did not appear to show any signs of actual awareness when her eyes would open a bit. Even though there is still a chance that things will improve over time, this was not nearly as encouraging as I had hoped.
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Stay strong.
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