Shortly after I left the hospital this morning, there was a little excitement in her room. Hopefully I will re-tell it pretty accurately. I was told the story by Dad and the nurse.
The day before Dorothea had the colon surgery they took her off of all medication. They started her back up on all mediations today. One of the medicines is called Coreg, it is a medicine which lowers your blood pressure. (Remember yesterday or the day before when I was talking about her blood pressure being low...yes, not a good idea) Coreg is a medication that she has taken for years. However, when she first started taking it she had a lot of problem with her blood pressure dropping every time she stood up. So, the doctors had her go back to taking a very low dose, and gradually increased it to where it needed to be. Well, since they stopped giving it to her when they did the surgery, her body was not used to it. Today they gave her a full dose of it - and it did its job - it lowered her blood pressure a whole lot - too much. It also caused her CO2 to be way off also. The nurse called for help and a Harold says there was a mob in the room - and they came quickly. They quickly got her numbers back where they need to be. They went ahead and put her back on the ventilator so to help get the CO2 back to where it needs to be also.
She was wide awake, talking and smiling when I came to visit her this afternoon, so this did not seem to affect her.
She asked me to get her some water and was very surprised when I told her that I couldn't do that. I reminded her that they tried to give her ice chips the other day and she choked on them. It is dangerous to give her anything to eat or drink when she has not re-learned swallowing yet. One thing at a time...
They did allow her to suck on a small sponge that was soaked with water. That seemed to appease her for now.
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