Thursday July 29th, 2010 PM

There may have been some confusion with what was stated in the last posting.

Pulminary Edema is fluid in the lungs, and Alyson does have that. And is being treated for that.

Pulminary Embelism is a blockage of an artery to the lungs, and could be caused by a clot.

Both can cause the same type of symptoms. The x-ray confirmed the Pulminary Edema, and the cat scan ruled out any Pulminary Embelism. Pulminary 101 lesson of the day.

Lesson two for those of you that know more about this than me. Pulmonary is spelled PULMONARY. This blog does not have spell check.

I also apologize for the way the last post looked. Once I pasted Paulines email into this blog, even though what I had written had spacing in it, when posted to the web site it crunched it all together. I tried to fix it but nothing seemed to fix it.

Another item to clear up for those who know even more about medical proceedures.

Alyson is on the high saline solution medicine and medicine to increase her blood pressure, to help control the vaso spasims. When she was having problems with too much fluid in her system and lungs, they took her off the saline solution when they started the Lasix. Today they took her off the Lasix and have again started the high saline solution.

After the scary start to the day today, it improved quite a bit as the day went along.

At noon they took off the Cpap mask and she was just on oxygen through a tube.
At 3:00pm they took her off the oxygen altogether.

She was feeling better tonight. She still has not eaten alot today. She has done lots of exercises in her bed, but did not get up for a walk.

She has been peeing like a fire hose, but this evening Pauline says it has slowed down a bit. She is still on a catheter.

The pain is still bad in her lower back. The brain drain is still fruit punch in color.
She still has the naso gastro tube in her nose.

As I write this I have just received another text from Pauline that they gave her tonights saline solution through this tube, and she just threw it back up.

Manny was with her this evening and I am sure that is helping to raise her spirits.

Lets hope that she is over this glitch and tommorow we start to see some more progress with her recovery.

I will be headed back to Gainesville tomorrow.

Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers.