Today started on a very positive note especially with what happened yesterday. Karen had a swallow study done to see if it would be safe for her to start eating and drinking. She passed with flying colors. So Karen drank some Sierra Mist and chewed on some ice chips. Then she had some chicken noodle soup. You would have thought from the huge smile that emerged acrossed her face that she had just won the lottery.
Evening time came and along with it came ...some changes. Karen was having trouble again with her heart. Her heart and pulse rate have been jumping all over the place. It was up to 180 but they've been giving her medicine to help it. It's lowered it a little, it's now been between 111 and 155 but her blood pressure is 83/54. They are keeping a close eye on her and they keep telling me not to be worried because they see a lot of this behavior in transplant patients due to the trauma the body has taken. They are considering moving her back to the ICU if the meds don't seem to work. The ICU doctor isn't that worried about her condition right now. There is no way I'll be able to sleep tonight with these alarms going off all the time and constantly staring at the monitors every second. The doctor said it's only a little setback. No one said it would be easy.
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