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Sandi Today--More Hospital
Time
Just got home a little while ago and it is pretty
clear that while the doctors involved keep
saying "a couple of days" she is not coming
home anytime soon. The cancer doctor came in
earlier today and spent some time with her.
Sandi was getting blood out of her nose from
time to time and the cancer doctor believes
that is due to irritation of her sinuses. Despite
running the oxygen through the water thing
they do to moisten the air, some patients get
dried out and start bleeding a little bit from
time to time. It is rare and she has managed to
do it.
He believes the antibiotics they put her on for
the lung fluid are NOT working. He has
changed her to another IV antibiotic and is
adding an IV steroid to it to help her. he is also
ordering some new tests. They did several
chest x-rays this morning and spent over an
hour doing an echocardigram in her room this
afternoon.
From time to time when they take her vitals
they have her go off the oxygen to see how far
she will drop. Just sitting there doing nothing
and saying nothing, she runs about 92 when on
oxygen. For somebody who was well with no
lung issues, they should run about 99 or 98. So
she is already too low before they take her off
the oxygen.
Once they take her off, in seconds the numbers
start dropping and soon are flashing red as
they slide below 85. It less than two minutes
she is down to 78. As time continues to pass
she fluctuates between 78 and 70. At one
point, when she was at 72, they told her to
pant hard and the highest she could get back
to was 78. Clearly she can't come home with
that going on.
I expect at this point she is in for the weekend
at the very least and would not be surprised if
this goes on into next week quite a bit. More
as I know it.....
UPDATE----
They have done two EKGs tonight. Apparently
they were not too sure about the results of the
first one so they came back with a different
machine and did it again.  Theoretically, she
passed as nobody freaked out and did
anything about the tests.