We spent 4 hours at the hospital today for a clinic visit with Dr. VanBergen. We had blood drawn and a chest xray first. Her labs came back great! Her sodium was 139, an all time high. We are cutting back on one of the sodium suppliment doses as a result. Her potassium was 3.4, up from 2.5 last week. I attributed the rise in both electrolytes to her all Gatorade liquid intake. She may have cavities by 2, but the Gatorade has potassium and sodium! Her chest xray was beautiful.
Dr. Shetty and her nurse Janise brought their pacemaker gear to the party and she told us she is looking good and she will adjust her pacemaker in a month in order to save battery life and put off the next surgery for as long as possible. Muriel did well with that test thanks to nurse Angela blowing bubbles to distract!
By the time she was up for her EKG and Echo, Muriel was not happy. She cried her way through the echo and finally fell asleep at the end. Then the echo tech redid most of the shots since she was calm.
Dr.VanBergen said everything was good. She is not however getting rid of the lasix or diuril diuretics for another 3 months. Aditionally, we shouldn't expect to get rid of the oxygen for another 2-3 months. This news is more than slightly disappointing. I had thought she would be off oxygen in 2-3 weeks, not months. I suppose Muriel is healing at her own pace. We also learned she will have her fenestration closed in around 6 months. That will only be an overnight trip to the hospital. Our next appoinent isn't for a month, with one trio to check her INR level in two weeks.
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