Sunday, February 17, 2013

Another Surgery Scheduled


Jordyn was pretty out of it today because of the morphine they have been giving her since the surgery, otherwise she is doing great.  They did another head ultrasound and found that things are still ok and once again its not any worse since last Tuesday.  She got her chest tube taken out today that they had to put in for the surgery.   They inserted a PICC line, which is another tube but goes along side a vein all the way to the heart.  It is also called a central line catheter.  They can use it for nutrition, fluids, or medicines.

Addison's echo this morning showed that her PDA duct is large so the indocin medicine isn't working.  They are going to perform the same surgery on her sometime tomorrow afternoon.  She will need to have a PICC line as well but they didn't put it in today.

Both girls needed some blood and this is going to turn into a pretty common thing.  They will be getting blood weekly and possibly a few times a week.  

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