MRI cleared! Doing glucose tolerance test now -- no food and no sugar IV until his glucose drops to 50 -- then get a blood sample for lab studies. He hasn't eaten since 8pm yesterday and was taken off glucose IV 5pm. His glucose was 67 on 10pm. It's not dropping as quickly as we thought and I have mixed feelings for that -- I want this test to be done so he could start eating tomorrow, but on the other hand I'm happy that his glucose does not always crash like it did. And I want this glucose below 50 to happen before I go to bed so I can help to assess to prevent him having another seizure. I had to remind the doctor to get the dextrose bolus ready since apparently you cannot always tell the happening of seizure by heart rate monitor, pulse monitor, oxygen monitor, blood pressure monitor, and breathing monitor. And him sleeping at the time is definitely not very helpful. So Jianwei and I are taking shifts to get some sleep tonight.
After the glucose tolerance test, we will be able to leave ICU and go to Hem/Onc floor tomorrow -- but it's full now and we hope somebody will be discharged tomorrow. We regret complaining about 2 weeks stays at Hem/Onc floor -- we miss it immensely now and really want to leave ICU tomorrow (and never come back!).
Bless Lucas get out of this dangerous situation very soon! Hope you can move to the Hem/Oc floor as expected!
ReplyDeleteWe regretted complaining about the Hem/Onc floor after the ICU too. I hope you can get out of there soon and that they figure out exactly what happened so it never happens again.
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