Mercy Hospital, again

By way of background, after her ordear last year, Angela has recovered her strength nicely, but her liver enzymes have never returned to normal, and she has continued to be jaundiced. In February she had another pneumonia, and Mike and I drove down and spent a week or two. She seemed to recover OK, but hasn't completely regained her strength. Her San Francisco hepatologist wanted her to return to repeat some studies. Then, she developed another pneumonia a couple of weeks ago and had to be hospitalized, so I came down with the thought of helping her through this, then taking her to SF. After she came home from the hospital, we had a lot of difficulty keeping her oxygen saturation up, but she always was able to cough, at least a little, and bring it back up until Sunday night, when it stayed in the 60's (normal is over 90) and I took her to the ER. She was admitted to the local ICU, where she didn't improve.

Then this afternoon, her doctor decided she was not responding to the treatment and was most likely going to need to be intubated, and she would rather that be done at Mercy in Redding, where they are much better equipped, so she sent her by ambulance. At Mercy, she was intubated, bronchoscoped, and a catheter placed into her heart to measure pressures. She started doing a lot better and when I left she was apparently comfortable, sedated, and showing good numbers on all the monitors. She's scheduled for a couple of tests tomorrow, and her pulmonologist needs to consult with the SF hepatologists, and hopefully, someone will come up with some reason for this and some way to fix it. At least for now she is stable, and I am going to get some sleep. I know she is in God's hands, and there is no better place to be, and can find peace in that.