You know the saying "what goes up, must come down". Well it is also true that "what goes in, must come out". As mentioned in yesterday's post, Hannah is on peritoneal dialysis to try & remove some of the fluid build up she has. The first catheter they put in kept leaking the dialysis fluid as it went in, so they decided in the end that this was creating too high of an infection risk & they were not able to attain optimal dialysis & inserted a new catheter. This resolved the problem of the fluid leaking before it went in, but now the dialysis fluid keeps seeping out of the old wound site. As a result she is not getting much peace & quiet as they are having to change the bedding & dressings frequently.
They attempted to stimulate her kidneys to work without much success. I feel she is getting puffier again in the face, but the records show she is actually losing fluid, so it just must be redistributing a bit.
Otherwise everything else is progressing slowly, but surely in the right direction.
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