We\u2019re back in the ICU at Yakima Regional.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll make this short (for now):\u00a0 We woke early this morning, I think about 5:30.\u00a0 I let the puppies out, asked Nancy if she was okay.\u00a0 She was, then she wanted something to spit into.\u00a0 I got that for her and went down the hall and went to bed.\u00a0 At some time later she got up and went into the kitchen and was dumping here tiny waste bucket into the sink.\u00a0 At that point she apparently had a ventricular fibrillation episode and sank to the floor.\u00a0 Her ICD responded with a double whammy and converted the beat back to normal.<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0 She thought I had gone outside and expected my return.\u00a0 After about an hour she yelled for me and, being just down the hall, I appeared after the first yelp.<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0 She was quite anemic and the doctor thought that might have triggered the V-fib and set off the ICD. \u00a0Test 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 \u2013 off to Yakima she went.<\/p>\n
I talked with her a few minutes before 5 P.M. and she sounded fine but had little real news.\u00a0 I\u2019m posting this at about 5:25 and will head on down.<\/p>\n
More Wednesday.<\/p>\n
John<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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