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Olivia Grace Chatterton! (This is me yelling at Olivia telling her to knock it off!)
Sorry, but the following is another lazy cut and paste from CaringBridge, but it was a late, late night and I slept in this morning. I want to get in to see her, so you'll just have to bear with me. My deepest apologies.
Well, if there is a secondary infection coming on, it's a doozy. Last night at shift change (of course) Olivia made another statement for herself. She was having low blood pressures for a while and then she all of a sudden went haywire. Her heart rate was in the 60's, blood pressure was in the 40's, and her oxygen saturations were in the 50's and 60's. Very, very scary. And this continued for a good hour and a half at least. Once about 5 meds. were added and 1 was taken away, she was back to a good place. They have re-paralyzed her and stopped her feeds. Her belly is very large and she seems to very "backed up." I guess the bottom line was one of two things:
1. A secondary infection is sending her into a tailspin.
2. She became dehydrated and things started shutting down. We are leaning more towards this, because of how sudden things happened. She pretty much stopped peeing, her face got puffy, and she perked up after a whole lot of blood and blood products were given last night.
However, a sign of infection is determined by these "bands" on a person's white blood cell. Normal range is 1-10% and Olivia's "bands" are sitting at 31%. They have put her on 3 antibiotics, so hopefully this gets whatever might be brewing.
Don't you love how medically knowledgable you become once you've been updated on Olivia! We should all be about ready for a honorary medical degree. Have a good day.