Trying to save her blood??

Words you don't want to hear in the dialysis department: "I'm trying to save some of her blood" — at Swedish Hospital.

Her dialysis machine started beeping and announcing an air contamination alert, and shut itself down. The technician ran to the other patient whose machine was also alerting. By the time she got back to Kristan, the blood in her machine had begun to coagulate and was unusable. So the tech threw away all that existing setup, and the blood in it, and started over with all new tubes and filter. She claimed Kristan only lost 1 pint of blood.

The coagulation is amazingly timely in an ironic way, because the reason Kristan is in the hospital, is because she has a blood clot. And a serious infection.

But I'm so shutdown from shock, stress, lack of sleep, that's it's all just rolling off my back. Apparently.