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As I sit here, waiting for word, from pickles for me to come get him… I thought i’d update people whith what I knoe from last night. To kep Kim’s blood preassure up high enough to weather the 24/7 dialysis, the have to pump her full of dopamine, milrinone, argatroban, and other medcines… The problem [...]

Course of treatment, Part 1

Posted by: GeekBrat on: 06/02/2008

Just an FYI…. Pickles and I have an apointment with Kim’s doctors @ UPenn to discuss the corse of treatment…. Fingers Crosed -Piper Posted from moBlog – mobile blogging tool for Windows Mobile

Updates and latenight consent….

Posted by: GeekBrat on: 06/02/2008

Sorry about the lack of blog updates, but i’ve been spending time in the chatroms again and relaying information through there.. Kim’s stll n and out mentally and has been really tred a lot…. She’s back on the 24/7 Dalysis because when they tried the every other day kind her blood preassure and temp were [...]

The fog that is rhenal failure…..

Posted by: GeekBrat on: 05/29/2008

Just a little middle of the night update from me…. As it stands now, Kim is still in a standard sinus rhythm. Her blood preassure is good for her but a little low from ‘normal’ and her heart rate is good. She was off the Dialysis today for a couple hours…. They needed to prep [...]

Cardioversion and Dialysis and Doctors, Oh My!

Posted by: GeekBrat on: 05/26/2008

Well lass than 1 hour ago, I gave ‘phone consent’ for Kim to have a procedure called Cardioaversion. No, Kim’s not ‘gone’ again mentally, but she was actively having Dialysis done, and didn’t feel right getting consent from her while that was happening. The cardioaversion is something we’ve been waiting on/expecting for a while and [...]

Allllll Aboaaaaaaaard! Next Stop, U.Penn!

Posted by: GeekBrat on: 05/25/2008

As I sit here, we are curently waiting on medical transport to arrive. Kim’s being transferred to UPen’s CHF/Cardiac Transplant clinic… Kim’s doctors here @ deborah have been in contact with their counterparts over @ UPenn and said that sending her there is worth a shot. UPenn has close to the same reputation of excelence [...]



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