Hello CGers!!! It's me. Boldly, bravely, I let my Dad bring me my laptop for tonight. I have been enjoying a computer hiadus, but wanted a little time to write to you y'all and doodle on internet. Who knew I could go a whole month without my laptop? WHO KNEW!? Well, I've been busy. And tomorrrow is already my transplantiversary!! ( one month). My surgery started on July 27th and ended on July 28th! I know there is a lot to explain about all that has happened but I'm not gonna handle all that tonight. Just recent news and such. So, it looks like I hope to get out of the hospital next week if we can finally figure out everything with my lymphatic system. I started eating this week, and long and short, it agravated my lymphatic system a bit, again. (Not at all like before, but still, there was fluid retention and other random details.). So, 4 more day of IV nutrition and clear liquids for me, and then we'll try, I don't know, eating again. The IV nutrition keeps m
I don't think I have ever had a problem with my CO2. How would you know without doing a blood gas?
ReplyDeleteUmmm,I ain't qualified. Can I raise my hand if I think you are cute?
ReplyDeletexo
Ok...so I have to comment on this :) Mine isn't high now...but was very high a few days before my transplant...212 to be exact. I was told that I hold the record at USC in California and in Alabama for the highest CO2 level and that no one lives with that high of a level. But they were wrong!
ReplyDelete@j- I've already has respiratory failure once, so after that the symptoms (headache, etc.) seem pretty familiar. I hope it's not my CO2 but if i were a betting woman . . .
ReplyDelete@l- oh yeah.
@k- mine was once 175 and i thought that was amaaazing. you have me beat, and all the rest of us, it seems. i like that phrase, "a few days before my transplant..."
:)
would high co2 explain my wacko dreams? ;)
ReplyDelete