Tanya's Lung Transplant 9: 8/18/09

Early Monday morning, Tanya hit a temperature of 102 degrees, which initially they thought was due to infection. Her nurse explained to her what a serious thing this was and told her the options, and Tanya said "do what you have to do." She was put under sedation and "reintubated" which means put back on the vent. Her doctors ordered a whole catalog list of antibiotics. Her temp kept climbing and her heart rate was up to 150. Sometime around 4 or 5 o'clock Tuesday her heart rate and temperature started going down and eventually reached normal. Now her doctor believes the fever was a reaction to one of the medications she was on, because all her numbers were good, and her oxygen was good, everything looked okay except she had a fever.
When I called this morning they said she's still doing well, and they're going to put a picc line in, pull the central line out of her neck, take her off the vent, and wake her up. Her white blood cells are going down to normal levels. White cells go up in the case of an infection, so it would seem there's no infection, but they're still watching for it. Still not 100% out of the woods yet, but shes on the right path. I'm glad they didn't rush her out of icu.

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