I just spoke with Dr. Perry and he told me how things went.\u00a0 He said that generally, things went very well.\u00a0 He said they didn’t find or repair any shunts.\u00a0 He also said the pressures in her heart were back to normal, and in fact, in one of the chambers was unusually low.\u00a0 I suppose that the fact that there are no shunts is good news, but the fact that they aren’t sure what is going on is a little discouraging.\u00a0 Dr. Perry said that he thinks it is possible that the low pressures in her heart may be a sign that her blood pressure is dropping drastically when she gets up.\u00a0 He does make a good point, since if there were a shunt, sitting up shouldn’t really make much of a difference.\u00a0 He thinks that her body is just so weak from having the fluids drained and not eating or drinking as well and being on medicine to lose fluids so that when she stands, her blood pressure plummets, which would also make her saturation levels plummet.\u00a0 Her blood pressure has been lower than usual over the last few days, so that would fit the symptoms.\u00a0 We’ve never measured her blood pressure while sitting up.\u00a0 Maybe we should.\u00a0 Dr. Perry thinks that her lung could have been partially collapsed for a long time and that it takes time for the lung to bounce back and start working again.<\/p>\n
Anyway, we’re not out of the woods yet.\u00a0 Thank you for reading and praying for us today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I just spoke with Dr. Perry and he told me how things went.\u00a0 He said that generally, things went very well.\u00a0 He said they didn’t find or repair any shunts.\u00a0 He also said the pressures in her heart were back to normal, and in fact, in one of the chambers was unusually low.\u00a0 I suppose […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[21,8,13],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s8WrW-results","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1207,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions\/1207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}