Dorothea is receiving another dialysis treatment this morning. The kidney specialist was in this morning and told Harold that they will plan on doing the dialysis again on Thursday, Saturday, and Monday. Today they are removing 3 liters of fluid. Dorothea has 22 POUNDS of extra fluid weight right now. Since her kidneys are not functioning they have to rely on the dialysis machine to remove all of that fluid that she is retaining.
Harold says that her feet are looking much better. They were very red yesterday, but seem to be reacting well to the warmth of the boots that they have put on her. So happy to hear that!!!
Last night Harold asked them to look a little closer at a couple of wounds that were not healing on Dorothea's left arm. A wound specialist paid her a visit and has her bandaged up, and will continue to monitor the wounds. I believe they are locations where tubes have been removed, and she just hasn't healed well after they were removed.
Her white blood count has decreased slightly (good) and her temperature and blood sugar levels are good.
She is still pretty heavily sedated, but she did acknowledge me a couple of times this morning and shook her head yes a couple of times. It's nice that the kids have all sorts of fun things going on in their lives, so it gives me something fun and uplifting to talk to her about.
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