Update on Julie

Update: pray for nausea to go away, she feels sweaty hot on the outside all the time, she needs constant cooling off with washcloths. She still has one chest tube in which causes her lots of pain almost her only pain and it will NOT come out today, still a tiny leak. She is a fighter and continues to progress by leaps and bounds. This morning we had a situation. When she got all her meds at 9 she was also given afrin which was new but she had been complaining about congestion. So halfway through her pills one of her machines started beeping. This was a whole new beep we hadn't heard it before. These machines beep all the time mostly for no good reason, well I looked at Julie and she reached for her chest and said her heart was racing. I was alarmed and so was she. I called for the nurse who thought we were just looking for a blanket she went off and God steps in and brings her doctor at that moment. I immediately went and told him and he came in. Long
story shorter it happened half way through her meds shortly after the afrin so the doctor ordered medicine to slow her heart down. For those who understand it was 153. They gave her 5mg and it came down to 144 they gave 5 more mg and it came down to 132 he laughed saying she was a fighter. He ordered chest xrays "stat" and an immediate EKG. He believes it was the afrin he wasn't happy they gave it, he told Julie it's off the list won't happen again. They are going to give her blood pressure medicine and check her every 15 min for the next two hours. The cardiologist came in, asked questions said it wasn't life threatening and He would check back. Her number by then was down to 85. She's still doing great, she can WALK without oxygen it's incredible! When doctors ask what the level of her shortness of breath is from 0-10 zero being none she always answers zero, with a smile! She was actually walking last night, 3 laps around and kicked her left leg to
the side to get Manuel's butt. She's ready to train for the LA marathon! Please pray for good rest, she is having a very hard time being comfortable. She desires to just be comfortable!

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