Tanya's Lung Transplant 14: 9/4/09

Monday Tanya finally moved into a new room on the 8th floor, the transplant patient section. This was also the first day she walked outside her room. Her progress is very good, still with a 5 out of 10 on the pain scale, but she's had one of her drainage bulbs removed, and the other one will be taken out soon. Yesterday morning was kind of an off time, because her heart rate was slightly elevated and her microspirometer results were a bit worse than the day before, but by the afternoon she was feeling better. This morning she had a bronchoscopy, which is just a simple procedure to examine the inside of the lungs and remove any excess fluid. The procedure went very well. Every day she does better on the incentive spirometer, which measures lung capacity, but still needs to cough more. Now things are really moving along and she should be getting ready to go home in a couple weeks.