Monday, September 16, 2013

K to Sky Ridge ER

K will be heading to ER at Sky Ridge Medical Center later today. She has several things not going right. Multiple problems are falling on top of each other, complicating things mightily. Severe pain in her right side, combined with nausea and vomiting, are the latest to join the fray. The Dialysis Center turned her away on Friday, with a clogged fistula and thick black blood. They warned her that her potassium was already high, which can quickly become fatal, and to be very careful over the weekend, with what she ate. They were going to schedule an appointment at the Renal Access Center for today, to get her fistula repaired. Since she'll be enroute to ER, she'll miss her hyperbaric oxygen treatment, which is to try to get her foot wounds healing, so that's a concern. She'll also not be able to get her fistula treated at the Renal Access Center, if she's in ER, so there's talk of catheterization to enable dialysis, and she's very unhappy about that prospect. Her caregiver schedule is falling apart, as people are drawn away by other obligations.

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