Gasp, surgery is not possible without clotting. Bleeding would be excessive.
dyslexia wrote:update--surgical nurse called this morning and reported Lady Diane's blood is not clotting correctly, surgeon may postpone or may not.
SOFB. Also damn. Are they planning on doing something to improve the clotting?
Also oy.
We don't know the protime results, just that she is a slow clotter.
I gather the surgeons are talking all this over.
Meantime, Diane and Matt and I just got back from a pleasant lunch on a sunny day, bringing back a brownie for Dys.
she should be eating what Im not allowed to, like red beet greens and spinach.
Miller posted a list of foods high in vitamin K its on my coumadin thread.
Stalling the procedure until infection is cleared is prudent. Staph infections are a serious consequence of any surgery where a stay in a hospital is required.
This piss-off never ends!
Ommmmmmmmmm.....
Love and healing thoughts on full blast and heading down New Mexico-way.
Diane did the beet thing early, I even bought some for her.
That may have put off rigorous testing.
Really, I'm fking wild that people do doc dumps. At the same time I may agree. I see this as tigers pouncing sans data, interestingly, from around the world, all at the ready.
has she been taking aspirin for her pain?
Aspirin is a blood thinner. Taking it would just exacerbate her clotting problem.
Right, I wasn't suggesting she should do so, just wondering if she had been.
Update--Lady Diane to go in for a Vit K shot this morning, tomorrow to get a plasma infusion (?) then procedure on Thur 1 P.M.
Once again, something definite.
Unfortunately Diane seems to attract mutable definites.
Thanks for the update, I was just coming here to ask how the procedure had gone....
Nowadays, gallbladder surgery can be done with a relatively small incision. I hope that Diane qualifies for this procedure.
Would laproscopic surgery (the small holes) reduce the amount of bleeding?
JLNobody wrote:Would laproscopic surgery (the small holes) reduce the amount of bleeding?
Mrs Walter got it done ... three weeks ago now.
People get a drainage after such here - Mrs Walter had some blood in that "plastic sac" for three days - and that's one of the reasons they have to stay in hospital here.
[She actually got three holes, two teeny and a very small one. A teeny one was used later as sewerage.]
update;
Murphy's law
"if something can go wrong it will"
Dys's law
"Murphy was an optimist"
This morning as I mention a Doc called and said the procedure was being rescheduled til thur so that Lady Diane could get a Vit K shot today and a Plasa infusion tomorrow.
So, Osso and Lady Diane went to the doc's office to get the Vit K shot and then they opened the package they discovered that the shelf-life had expired and they how no other Vit K so now we are waiting at home while they search the city for someone who has current Vit K. What this does the the schedule for the remainder of the week is unknown.
