... Last week he could still go up the stairs once or twice. The doctors think that the chemo isn’t working and that they should stop even though the treatment only started last week. They say his test results show that his liver function is getting worse and he’s not absorbing much from the TPN. My dad ...
At 35 weeks pregnant, after 2 bouts of sepsis, 6 PICC lines, 2 home healthcare companies, 4 months of TPN (IV nutrition). 15+ultrasounds, a symphysis pubis separation, a morphine PCA, countless hours vomiting, countless meds to stop the vomiting, 3 months inpatient in the hospital, 4 ER visits ...
... everything. Its just one of those days when my heart hurts because of wanting so desperately to live her life at home and not in this hospital. Perhaps next week if we can get her feeding up to 30cc an hour they may consider letting us go back home(on TPN) and work on all of this. You know how ...
16th November, four days before William's transplant and on a day good enough for us to escape from the hospital to a nearby playground for a while during his couple of hours off TPN and IV antibiotics January 1st 2009, six weeks after transplant Escaping isolation to make the most of a deserted ...
Brian’s counts today are: WBC = 2.5, Hgb = 8.8, Plat = 290, and ANC = 2.3 They are taking him off the TPN for longer time frames today. They only want him on it for 8 hrs overnight. They really want him to eat. The quicker we can get his belly to work, the better. He really isn’t drinking very well ...
... distracted to notice. What else, Mom? Then we partied hard - Trivial Pursuit and then Uno 'till the new year rang in. We did not watch the ball drop; I have decided that until we have a New Year's event in our own time zone, I ain't watchin'. There is some debate over the efficacy of the TPN feeding Dad ...
... since i have been home. My quality of life has gone down drastically since I have gotten this new tube in my stomach and TPN nutrition at night, etc. It is just overwhelming what all I have to do to live these days. I have also been thinking a lot about chemotherapy and not really wanting ...
... food until I am getting enough nutrition without the TPN (fake food). If it doesn't cope then I'll have to have a break and give it more time to heal. But at least there is some improvement - felt very very good about that. So here's to 2009. One of the nurses said today that 2009 is going to be a good ...
... directly from their nose to their stomach and food is pushed through. (Prior to that, they receive TPN or Total Parenteral Nutrition through an IV line). Breastmilk is critical for micro-preemies because of their immature systems, so I expressed milk from the moment my daughter was born. I remember ...
1. What did you do in 2008 that you’d never done before? Went to Destin/Ft. Walton (with Chris), got a job with a 401K, went to the Atlanta Jazz festival, drank legally in a public place in America, lived on TPN for four months, cursed the political and medical establishments with relish. 2. Did ...
