(unfortunately) More Woods

I guess this is why we were treading softly. Rosina had a tough night last night. She was coughing and by morning, having a hard time catching her breath. Her oxygen count dropped, her chest xray was less clear than yesterday, and by midday, they had done another bronchoscopy and then they put her back on the ventilator. "Intubated". It is the same Alveolar hemorrhage that she had last week. I'm not sure if it came back or it never went away. It's a diffuse layer of blood inside the lung that makes it hard to absorb oxygen. The ventilator delivers more concentrated oxygen into the lungs and gets your levels up. She is steady now. She's is taking a couple of meds that are aimed at stopping the bleeding so that the lungs can heal. The doctors would say that this is uncommon, but they have seen it before. Also as before, she is sedated and basically out of it. Ugh.

Sitting in the back of my mind is the fact that this is a symptom not of the illness, but of the treatment. That's a pebble in my shoe. No one has made any errors, it just is that way. The good part of the treatment is that her marrow is great and all her organs are fine and she has no infections. The transplant has been successful with that. The rest we have to deal with and ride out.

A friend was working with the Rolling Stones once and he asked Keith Richards if they had any demos of the songs so he could prepare for recording. Keith faxed him back: "Improvise, adapt, overcome".

Think positive! (and overcome)
xo
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