Hospitalized once again !

Hello all readers,

Anne was hospitalized this morning.

This all started at 1am Tuesday (yesterday) morning. That's when she awoke with breathing difficulties at home. After a couple hours with no improvement we called the 'rescue' and I followed Anne into the ER. After ER found nothing they sent us home around 10am and we needed to try to catch up on our sleep.

We followed up with Dr. MacGillivray's office in the afternoon and he ordered a CT Scan. With that, we headed into Brighton Medical for the CT scan at approx 3pm. We understood that the CT would help rule out any blood clot problems in the chest area. Dr. MacGillivary left word that we were to stay at Brighton until he had a chance to call and speak with Anne directly, however he was still in surgery. At about 7pm he was still busy in surgery, so his office sent us a message saying that he wanted Anne to go to the ER. We headed to the ER and then Anne was admitted to the hospital from there by 1am.

The word on the CT scan is that there are problems in Annes chest. There are questions about a potential for pnemonia in her lungs, also fluid around her lungs, and also for fluid around her heart. It's now about 1pm and we don't have a plan of attack yet.

Dr. MacGillivray was here this morning and told Anne this was unusual for this recovery. He referred us to a cardiologist due to his concern about the fluid around the heart. The cardiologist was here and ordered an EKO Cardiogram, to get more information about the fluid around Anne's heart. We do not still have any results from that or a plan of attack as of yet.

Anne is resting, I would say less than comfortably, because she can only get small breaths. She isn't visibly complaining or visibly in trouble, but I know she would be much happier if she could take a deep breath. She's also be happier if we had a diagnosis and a plan. Before much longer we should know what might happen from here on.

The cardiologist just told me that if there is much fluid around the heart that they can go in with a needle to drain that. I asked him about the pneumonia and fluid around the lung linings. He said that there was nothing crucial regarding those concerns. He said his team of residents will be making their rounds shortly, and thay they hoped to have the results of the EKO cardiogram by then.