Saturday 1/12/19

Morning labs weren’t great, her hemo is 7.8, white count 13 and her blood pressure is still low at 91/53. Little later in the morning her blood pressure was 88/51 and they have her on Tranexamic Acid to help her blood clot. While ACES was checking on Meghan and doing rounds they had a conversation with Rob. Surgically, all efforts have been exhausted. Meghan’s pancreatic area has been operated on so much and all her veins & arteries have been blocked off. Doctors are saying they can’t do anything more surgically to Meghan without causing more harm. So moving forward all they can do is pack the area. If the bleeding doesn’t stop from packing, there may be a very difficult conversation none of us want to have. 😢 Meghan is on stronger pain medication and is in and out of sleeping. Currently her packing is not soaked in blood so that is good so they can’t say for sure if she is currently bleeding. Doctors just did a dressing change and skin graft that she has is still fully in tact. They are doing a chest X-ray to check for fluid and any new infections. She also will get another echocardiogram done tomorrow morning. Around 5:45pm labs came back and hemo is at 7.5 and white count is at 15.6. Her blood sugar dropped way low to 36 too. They gave her some dextrose to help. Her blood pressure keeps dropping and going back up so they keep upping and lowering her medication. They are giving her some fluid to help maintain her blood pressure. Next labs came back and hemo is 6.7. Meghan has received almost 3 liters of fluid in the past 24 hours so they think that is just diluting her blood.