Wednesday, August 20, 2008

morning update

as of 9am wednesday morning these are the latest updates:
evelyn is unable to urinate on her own. this just started once arriving in jackson. we are awaiting a catheter. her bladder is full, and she says she needs to pee, she tries to and it hurts.
according to CTscan taken in jackson last night there is no free air in her abdomean, but she does have a fecal impaction. she is on clear liquid diet and awaiting enimas and laxatives and will have colonoscopy tomorrow.
we dont have any answers or numbers yet as far as her white blood cell count being high or a cause for it other than bacterial infection per linden hospital.
we dont have any numbers or answers yet as to why her h&h levels are dropping to show loss of blood.
up until the 17th she was urinating 9x in each 24hr period. urinated 2x on the 19th. on the 17th she had diarreha 9x. she had a small stoll on the 18th. yesterday (the 19th) she was given milk of mag wiht noo effect and a rectal exam no stoll was felt but only liquid on gloves. the CT scan last night looked as though the impaction was low, which means it has moved some on its own.
current meds are adavan .25mg x 1; ariceft 5mg x 1; cymbalta 30mg x 1.
she says she isnt really in any pain other than the bladder issues, but she just doesnt feel good at all. doesnt feel good all over. she doesnt show signs of distress or pain when being examined. she knows where she is, what the date is, etc.
we have only spoken with one doc (the poop doc). we are currently waiting to speak with the gi doc and anyone else.

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