So after all of yesterday's activity, today was a dud. We didn't see any relevant doctors, and the hospital's computers were down all day so there were no reports from the biopsy or echocardiogram, although we did hear that the doppler study on her legs was negative (no clots). She's been taking ampicillan all day and feeling well, relatively speaking. As of 5:30 pm, we're waiting to see if any doctors come by to discharge her, but we're thinking that she'll be here until tomorrow, at least.
Since there is not much to report, I'll fill in some details on how her day goes. When I say she's feeling well, relatively speaking, that's in comparison to when she was vomitting and in a lot of pain. Now, she still has a constant pain in her abdomen and sometimes a little nausea. Most of the time, we can control that with phenergan, and we have phenergan at home so that's ok. She has bouts of serious gas pains from the air they pumped into her during the ERCP, and that usually lasts from 5-10 minutes at a time. She is very weak and tired all the time. I've been able to get her out to walk around the past few days, but that only lasts a few minutes before she's ready to get back into bed. Still, I think that just getting out of the room and bed, even for a few minutes is good physically and emotionally.
Nurse just walked in with an update... I'll post more later.
-Chris
