Yesterday was laundry day, so I went by a cleaners to drop off some things at their wash and fold and get a pair of pants pressed. The first one couldn’t get anything back till Tuesday. The next had a 10-pound or $30 minimum for wash and fold. As I asked about wash and fold,…

When patients are admitted to a hospital for an extended time, they typically are given shots of blood thinners. This is usually in the belly. Amanda’s belly is black and blue now, and it looks horrible. Nothing we aren’t used to; she was on a blood thinner for a long time before transplant. One side…

We made it to the “floor” late last night, and we already want to be back in the ICU. Surprisingly, I was able to get all of our stuff packed into the cart. Only because I already took two loads to the car! I was ready to go, it didn’t take me but a couple…

Well, we almost it through yesterday without any pain meds. Late last night, just after making yesterday’s post, Amanda started having bad chest pain. It is controlled by IV pain meds, but it does make me feel easy about getting out of here. We’ll need to have this rate and pain under control before we…

After taking the tree down, I had to make the final declutter run through our stuff. I got all of it loaded up in a big Christmas gift bag and made my final run to the car. While putting things in the Yukon, I looked at Amanda’s license plate. We had a vanity plate made…

We watched a movie late last night. We’ve mostly been watching Grey’s Anatomy or just listening to worship music and playing on our phones. But Amanda has wore me out on Grey’s, so we watched a couple of movies yesterday. It’s a good thing our late-night movie wasn’t one that Amanda liked because she didn’t…

Amanda felt pretty rough before bed last night. I’m not sure if the new medication was still wearing off or what. Either way, she didn’t feel the greatest. All day yesterday, she just felt crummy. When I got up this morning, she said she felt okay, but she didn’t look it. She seems tired today,…

While I was out, Amanda had a spell. She said she got flushed, and her chest started hurting, but not like before. She’s had palpitations since she got out of the cath lab. Her chest had a pressure feeling this time. I think that freaked the ICU team out; they ordered an EKG and an…

The EP covering for the weekend came by early in the morning after I returned from getting ready. The fellow had told me he’d be coming in and covering while they were gone for the weekend. He was in the procedure yesterday and had first-hand knowledge of the case. He first mentioned that he remembered…

Amanda’s rate was a little lower after a night’s sleep, and the new rate medication had time to kick in. The medication is Flecainide, an anti-arrhythmic specifically made for lowering arrhythmias. So far, she has been on beta blockers, drugs that will reduce her rate, as well as blood pressure (which is typically on the…