Rambling Along

Adela continues to improve. Here is a rambling about today’s topics.

Her sodium is at normal levels so she doesn’t have to continue her salt treatments – thank goodness – because they were making her throw up.   She is still not sleeping a lot but the doctors seem to think its more just being in the hospital then anything else.  She is at her goal amount on her feedings (50ml per hr/26kcal) and seems to be tolerating them so far.   We are also waiting to hear about a possible diagnosis of fructose intolerance and a karyotype on her liver tissue.   Her latest blood panel shows that her hematocrit is up – which means her liver is producing red blood cells. That is a good sign because it isn’t the first thing that your body spends energy on – so it means that there is less (or nothing) going wrong in her body (like infection, etc).

She has met the goals for discharge for going home as long as she can keep up her sodiums and feedings. They are tentatively thinking Friday with plenty of follow-ups.