Thursday, January 24, 2008

A little bit shaken up

Mom coughed up some blood this afternoon. She was a bit shaken by it. She is not on the Coumadin yet so that wasn't the cause. Dad talked to Mom's doctor in St. Louis who was concerned that she has not been in as much contact with the cardiologist as she should be. He said that she should be receiving more care about the irregular rhythm and that he was going to personally call the cardiologist to see what the plans were for follow up. She was on an antibiotic before they went to the hospital because of some coughing episodes...Dad is now wondering if she needs to be back on that or not. They are talking to the doctor and pharmacy about it now.
On a positive note...Mom was coughing up blood one day while she was in the hospital and with doing her lung exercises and being off of the Coumadin longer it stopped. Please pray that it does again this time. She is doing her lung exercises more frequently again and that should help.

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