Sarah's got some complications that are going to keep her from coming home from the hospital yet. She tested positive for a GI infection called C. Diff - it's often seen in immuno-compromised patients that take antibiotics. It can be dangerous if not treated and is easy to spread to other patients in the hospital, although it's not as serious for healthy individuals. As a precaution, she is in "isolation" which means anyone in her room has to wear gloves.
Her potassium is now back in the normal range but they want to see if it will hold there or just come back down. Other test results are out of range as well, so I think we'll need have Sarah stay for observation - her albumin is low which causes swelling (edema) and her calcium is now really low at 6.5. Not likely she'll get the stent replacement done tomorrow but we'll have to wait and see. The C. Diff. infection could be related to the stent since it's been in for a fairly long time.
Sarah's very sleepy today and has been dozing hard this afternoon. Reminds me of the last time she was in the hospital - a pattern that I hope we don't fall in to this time.
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