7.2.21 Inpatient 3

Yesterday after rounds we met with GI (not actually Aimee’s specialist). They made a couple of changes to meds and decided to give her gut a rest by cutting her food with half pedialyte for 24 hours to see if we could stop her losing so much fluids and stop the stomach ulcers. They stopped her daily antibiotic, which she has been on for 3.5 years! Ugh! So glad to let that one go. It has been an ordeal to even get during covid shortages and caused us so much frustration. Plus, letting go of a med is rare and wonderful. 

So far the gut rest seems to be working. She isn’t dumping out fluids anymore. However, now she isn’t producing hardly any urine. She has been sleeping really peacefully with amazing heart rates, but anytime we try to rouse her and take off her bipap, she either desats or gets really agitated and shaky. She has only had it off for about an hour in the past 24. Granted, the ER experience was a lot, so maybe she is just recovering from that. 

The GI team feels that she must have some GI bug causing all of this. They don’t think it is related to her surgery at all. Seems like a really big coincidence to me, but whatever is the cause so as long as she recovers and we can bring her home safely without worrying about turning back around to bring her back!