this morning her levels dropped significantly so. Which is good.
Other problem is along with the emphysema and the cancer she has what's called a Pool Fusion. We normally have a lilquid around our lungs that is between the lung and the chest wall sort of keeps a vacuum between when we breath. This fusion is fluid building up at the bottom of the lung and is pushing on the lung which can collapse it so they went in this morning and put a draining. This basically Is like putting a feeding tube in they cut a small 1/4 dia hole on her side and insert the tube. When they did this it started to drain immediately. This afternoon around 230 - 3 they tried to wake her up meaning stop the sedative and see how they do sort of give her a vacation off of it. She woke up around 4. Was really respondent knew everyone and all surprised us all and didn't fight like a Tasmanian Devil. She said she wasn't scared she was worried, no pain but just discomfort in the chest that's cause of the tubes. They put her back into the sedation but not as large a dose. They will wake her up each day. This will go on until they find out what the fluid is and where its coming from. And the Pneumonia clears up, keeping her sedated keeps her from pulling the tubes out.
She did cry a little but we told her don't that all is ok that this is helping her. They are concerned about her urine shes not passing as much as they say she should. And shes retaining fluid. But they said this could be many things including if they cut back on the fluids they are giving her which I myself don't know if they did. But we don't think its a problem with her kidneys. Just not a lot of fluids.
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