Darlene returned to the care of Dr Doherty and Kentfield Rehab and Speciality Hospital last Friday
The Harley is back, inspection of bike before going to Reno, Street Vibrations in Sept.
Just got home frome seeing Dar. She developed two blood clots in her legs. Yesterday she was at Marin General and had a "filter" placed in order to stop any potential clot from passing to the lungs, (embolizm). She is fine and Doc D is very pleased we got it taken care of. Next week she will go back to Marin General and have a Supra Pubic catheter placed and replace the Foley, the hope is that this step will cut down measurably the incidents of UTI's.
Doc D was awesome and very forthcoming with her time and plan for Dar, she turned up the pump a bit and will work on finding the magic number.
The staff also learned how easy it is to give Dar too much oxygen over a long period, in their effort to keep Dar's O2 sats at 98 and above they over did it a bit and she was retaining CO2,an ABG was drawn as I suggested and sure enough she was at 66, not bad but, enough to snow Dar, they pulled her off and put her on room air and within an hour or so she was waking up and starting to be a lil scamp, there was no reason for me to get upset for the staff just needs to know what I know and now they do. They all thanked me for my input and appreciated knowing all they could learn from us.
I will return un Sunday with Dar's chair and PT book of excersises and look forward to seeing a more alert and scampy girl.
