We’re back in the ICU at Yakima Regional. Nancy has something going on and not being sure what, the consensus of the medical profession was that Yak-Reg ICU is the best place for her for a few days.
I’ll make this short (for now): We woke early this morning, I think about 5:30. I let the puppies out, asked Nancy if she was okay. She was, then she wanted something to spit into. I got that for her and went down the hall and went to bed. At some time later she got up and went into the kitchen and was dumping here tiny waste bucket into the sink. At that point she apparently had a ventricular fibrillation episode and sank to the floor. Her ICD responded with a double whammy and converted the beat back to normal.
Her legs and arms are weak (and maybe more so from the incident) and she rested a time on the floor but did not get up. She thought I had gone outside and expected my return. After about an hour she yelled for me and, being just down the hall, I appeared after the first yelp.
We then went to the Ellensburg ER where they soon determined the main thing wrong, as far as they could tell, was from a blood sample. She was quite anemic and the doctor thought that might have triggered the V-fib and set off the ICD. Test of the kidney function did not suit them either. They cannot download the data from the ICD here and so, with a unit of blood hanging beside her – off to Yakima she went.
I talked with her a few minutes before 5 P.M. and she sounded fine but had little real news. I’m posting this at about 5:25 and will head on down.
More Wednesday.
John