Sunday

Yesterday afternoon Dr Miler suggested a method he had seen used to halt diarrhea, slowly titrated dosages of Paregoric. Since Dorothea's weight is about 62Kilos the minimum dosage would be about 15 ml. So he started her with 2 ml. As it turns out this was not only enough to halt the diarrhea but also enough to sedate her for the night and all of today. I was able to get her to open her eyes and smile only twice today but by 4pm she was starting to ease up some. Needless to say, he will try something else. She got another unit of blood this afternoon and will get another with the Dialysis tomorrow. She did have one of her chest drains removed today and the drainage from the other is reduced. She will have Dialysis tomorrow and hopefully be more aware.