Thursday, January 26th

Here's the latest:

Will's liver may be bleeding out a little. His CT scan yesterday didn't show any blood, but it did show fluid around it. His blood work and tight tummy makes the doctor think that it is bleeding. His hermadocrite level in his blood was low this morning and he needed a blood transfusion. The doctor thinks that when they restarted his aspirin and blood thinner yesterday, it may have caused him to bleed out a little. She doesn't think it is going to cause him any major problems... they stopped the aspirin and blood thinner, and hopefully the bleeding will just take care of itself.

Needing blood brought up Will's IV access issue again. They went ahead and stopped his dopamine and versed in his pic-line for about 5 minutes and gave him his blood through his pic. He seemed to do ok, but they really need to get him another IV line. So, the pic-team was called in, and they are either going to put in another pic-line in his arm with the arterial line or they will try to turn his single access pic-line into a double access pic-line.

We're in the waiting room right now. Hopefully it won't be too long. I'll let you know how it goes!