This morning was a 2-hour roller coaster as Torrey's blood pressure dropped dramatically during his dialysis treatment. We had been warned that this is a risk to such a treatment, but so far they had been able to control it reasonably well during his previous treatments.
They ended up having to discontinue the dialysis until his blood pressure could stabilize.
As they were doing so, Torrey became weaker and weaker, and I had to continually try to keep him awake as the nurses called in the doctors to decide on the best course of action. After what felt like an eternity, they decided to insert a 'central line' through his neck in order to administer special meds that would better control the blood pressure.
The insertion of the central line caused him quite a bit of grief, which actually ended up resulting in his blood pressure rising to a normal level;
Once he calmed down, it started to drop again, but the medicine they gave him through the central line did its job well.
Anyway, they were able to continue his dialysis (a full 8 hours) with no incident, but he was definitely much weaker today, and therefore didn't make much progress with movement.
He will be getting a CT scan tonight of his stomach (since the nuclear scan wasn't clear enough to determine what is causing his white blood count to continue to be up), and they did an ultra-sound of his stomach today as well; though the by-the-book ultrasound tech did not reveal anything she observed. We'll have to wait for results on Monday, but hopefully the doctors will have the results of the CT Scan by tomorrow's rounds.
When I left Torrey tonight, he was resting well; vitals looked good.
Hoping tomorrow morning will be much different!
Hope you all are having a great weekend,
Monica
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Hey Bro...I haven't been able to stop thinking about you since I got the phone call from Dad that you were sick. I pray every day that you will recover and we can put our family back together. I love you! Your Sis
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