tinhuviel | Waiting for the Phone (Reply)

I had to leave Aunt Tudi at the hospital. She was waiting for her room to be ready which, according to the doctor, would be another hour at least. I know the room is 575 and I know that they're doing everything they can to get her potassium levels down. She had to drink some skanky goo that would more than likely make her "shit her brains out." I put that in quotations because that's exactly what one of the nurses told us on the Q-T. Since she's had heart attacks in the past, it was imperative that they got some of the potassium out of her system because potassium can cause arrhythmia, which she's had a lot of recently, and heart attacks. Her creatine levels are out the roof, too, which indicates that her kidneys may not be working in the manner they should be. Now, all of this may be her meds taking a toll, which means all she needs to do is have her meds adjusted accordingly. But it may be something more that just her meds. We should know more by tomorrow. Or today, as the case may be.