We had a bit of a setback today as we got sent back to northwestern hospital because Jane's blood CO2 was too high. This comes from her breathing not doing good enough job of expelling it. We realized something was wrong when she was super sleepy all the time and she was starting to have more body tremors.
Here now at northwestern they believe the main problem is still fluid around her lungs. The fluid is from all the excess fluid in her body. They are correcting the high CO2 by putting her on a CPAP machine to help her breathing. Preliminary tests show it is working. Also they are doing procedure on her right now to physically drain the fluid around her lungs with a needle.
Tomorrow morning they will do a biopsy to rule out that the lung fluid is being caused by more organ rejection.
They are investigating the tremors too. First guess is that it's caused by high CO2. Sleep deprivation (Jane has not been sleeping well at all) or vitamin deficiency. If not they are dedicated finding why it's happening.
More testing will done on her kidneys too make sure they are working correctly to flush out fluid.
It was not fun being back right where we started. But the doctors tells us it's a means to end of these problems. That is what we pray.
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