Timna Update Monday 11/09/2009 7:00ish pm Eastern
I found out that Timna's blood pressure is not being artificially elevated. She's holding her own. Pump it, Honey, pump it! Not too high.
From Wikipedia:
Dialysis may be used for very sick patients who have suddenly but temporarily, lost their kidney function (acute renal failure). When healthy, the kidneys maintain the body's internal equilibrium of water and minerals (sodium, potassium, chloride, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, sulfate). Those acidic metabolism end products that the body cannot get rid of via respiration are also excreted through the kidneys. The kidneys also function as a part of the endocrine system producing erythropoietin and 1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol (calcitriol). Dialysis is an imperfect treatment to replace kidney function because it does not correct the endocrine functions of the kidney. Dialysis treatments replace some of these functions through diffusion (waste removal) and ultrafiltration (fluid removal).
2:00pm EST. Still waiting for the Nephrologist (Kidney guy).
3:00pm The surgeon will place the catheter for dialysis when he gets out of surgery around 4:00pm.
6:30pm The surgeon came up and told me that he would place the catheter at 7:00 tomorrow morning because of a longer than usual surgery. He felt that he was too tired to rush into another procedure when doing it in the morning would not delay the dialysis.
Thank you Debbie for bringing me dinner.
Here's a link to a web site that Dr. Humphry recommended.
http://www.uptodate.com/patients/index.html
Please continue praying... And thank you all.
It's hard when every brainstorm results in a power failure.
- Lee Peterman
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