Still in the hospital

Well, a lot of information about the hospital stay to catch up on. First, the fluid was in fact a bacterial infection. The pig tail drain that was put in is still there. Last weekend, another problem started. Elizabeth was not peeing. She began getting very puffy all weekend. Multiple attempts to make her pee by giving extra saline in her IV did not work. Mom had to say enough with the saline! Unfortunately, the brand spanking new residents did not want to listen to Mom’s insistence that this was not normal for Elizabeth. Monday came around and the attending and fellow saw her and said, “What happened!?!”. Upon weighing Elizabeth, she had put on 4 kg (about 8.8 pounds). The cause of that turned out to be very low albumin. Multiple doses of albumin and a continuous drip of lasix has helped to correct the problem, but she is still holding fluid.
The next major problem was an additional fluid area in the chest wall. This one was higher up and along the side and around the lungs. Last Friday night a chest tube was put in to drain this area. This brought a great deal of relief to Elizabeth and helped make her much more comfortable. That tube was removed yesterday early evening. It seems now that the site is not healing properly. It has been having abnormal bleeding and we are not sure what is causing that.
I will try to get more updates posted sooner this time.Please keep Elizabeth in your prayers.