Sunday, January 18, 2009

No More BP Medicine

As of yesterday, she is off the BP medicine. She had the catheter taken out but was not urinating on her own yet so they put it back in. They said that it could be due to her not being awake enough to realize. We are hoping that it is all it is. They decided to take her off the antibiotics since she was not running a fever and white blood cell back down. Okay to explain the seizure medicines a little better. They gave her the ativan to stop the seizures the other day which knocks her out, one they put in IV that will prevent the seizures a little faster that she will eventually go off of, and one called Keppra that she takes by mouth that takes longer to get in system and start working since it is taken by mouth. The ativan was supposed to only be a one time thing and they stopped the fast working IV one also yesterday morning and about 2 pm yesterday she began mild leg twitching again. So they gave her another ativan and more of the fast working IV one until they are sure the other one is working good. They said she would be here long enough to stop the fast working IV one before she went home. That is basically everything from yesterday. I will give update in a little while after they make morning rounds. We are hoping she may be in regular room sometime this week since the main reason they kept her in here was the BP issue.

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