The rest of today was kind of a roller coaster.\u00a0 Angie would be doing great, but then after getting up she would start experiencing terrible pain and have difficulty breathing.\u00a0 We went back and forth with the chest tube in suction, then off, then on, etc.\u00a0 They want her to drain, but I think it drained too much too quickly.\u00a0 After the second episode, they called in the doctor and got some morphine ordered (she was at 8 — yes, we cracked Brian Regan jokes later) and did a chest x-ray.\u00a0 A couple hours later, after the pain was more under control, the doctor returned to tell us that the fluid was almost entirely gone from the lung (for now), but that the lung has collapsed a little bit on the right side.\u00a0 This is probably due to the amount of fluid she’s lost.\u00a0 Her drainage tube is currently clamped, so she should be good until tomorrow.\u00a0 She was able to get up and walk a bit with it clamped and she didn’t have as much pain as before, so we’re hoping that was the cause and now it is under control.
\nNow that she is comfortable, I finally feel like I can go get some sleep.\u00a0 The very kind nurses have let me stay WAY past visiting hours without saying a word.\u00a0 They have been very good to us.
\nTomorrow the plan is for a liver CT scan, though I’m not sure when.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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