This morning one of Meghan’s drains fell out. The nurse was changing her dressing and it came out, looked like the stitch had come out. Rob also stated that her sponges looked like there was liquid just sitting on top and very saturated. Doctors were paged to come and take a look at her and stat labs were taken. Her blood pressure had gone down and another number they watch (MAPS) was 56. Doctors think she may be bleeding again. Back to the OR 😢 she went down around 1030am. I will update as soon as I have info. Please say a prayer!
She is out of surgery. She was bleeding again from her right side and they do not know what caused this to start. They could see exactly where the bleeding was and it has already stopped. They have packed it to keep pressure. The drain that fell was not working correctly and that is why the fluid saturated her sponges, it had no where else to go. Bowels looked the same, no better no worse. Overall look they said abdomen looked better due to medicated flushes. So they want to do those in the OR to help assist in fighting the infection. They may do these every 24 hours for a few days. Pancreas looked the same no changes or bleeding in that area. CT results from over night didn’t show anything they don’t already know. Blood pressure is back up and MAPS is currently 85.
They had a sonogram done to check for blood clots in her veins. They did find a small one by her neck but it is on the wall and she still has good blood flow. They also believe she is having a small reaction to the new anti fungal medication they started today. Doctors told Rob that this is not uncommon since it’s such a strong medication. Next plan is surgery tomorrow. They will be washing her out again with the medicated fluid. Meghan had her bladder scan done since she hadn’t peed. She did have a full bladder. They told Rob the reason she wasn’t peeing could be from the low blood pressure. They thought it would be a benefit to put a regular catheter in so that was placed. She was put back on a little bit of blood pressure medication for now. Meghan had been pretty out of it today and in and out of sleeping. They noticed her coloring was off and she was very pale. Nurses had ACES (her surgical team) paged to come take a look. When the doctors came in they wanted labs stat and thought two possible things 1. She was becoming septic 2. A new bleed. Her hemoglobin has dropped to 2.6 and she started getting blood right away. Platelets have been moving in the right direction and was over 300 and now currently 65. She got already 8 units of blood, 8 plasma and 2 platelets in her room and headed back to the OR. She had a new bleed. It was an area by the pancreas. She got 2 more units of blood in surgery and 1 of plasma.
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