About 2 a.m. this morning Mom had another episode of her heart racing. Dr. Hough was in this morning to see her and has increased her dosage of the medicine to prevent this. The surgery to install the port in her chest has been postponed for now. Today will be a day of rest and recovery.
So what's causing this? It is due to high blood pressure. When the pressure gets too high the upper chamber spikes very high and the lower chamber tries to compensate causing the two to get totally out of synch. So what causes the high blood pressure? Medication, thyroid, even the cough medicine she takes has codine, which can do it. Fortunately, she was in ICU at the time and they were able to detect it right away, vs. being at home trying to shower as she was yesterday morning.
She is awake and alert at this time and was able to receive holy communion just a little while ago. They were able to take her down to perform the brain scan this morning also. After, she was able to get some toast and coffee. Tim said he noticed she looked much better after getting something in her stomach.
Today is also the day we are to hear back from her oncologist Dr. Morar. We are scheduled to have a phone conference with her at 2 p.m. to learn the final results of the cancer test. Hopefully we will learn exactly what she has and what the recommendation is for treatment. Mom will then have plenty of decisions to make. I will post later to let you all know what we find out. Thanks for all the feedback on here, I'm glad that this is comforting to you all. Jim
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thanks jim!! it helps when you know you can not talk everyone. there is just to many of us. again thank you!
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