Saturday I could hear the doctor and nurse practitioner discussing sending us home. They both agreed. We have had high blood pressure and are on three meds to bring it down. Both agreed that under a 100 was good enough to go home but... she was sitting around 103. So, I politely disagreed and asked that we not go home until it was managed. Yesterday it was around the high 80's. I was happy with that so we packed up, checked out of the Ronald McDonald House and came to get her (Heather and I). While we were gone she went from 1/12 a liter of oxygen to 2 liters. We were discharged and admitted without even leaving the room.
I'm sitting here this morning trying to decide if it's okay for us to go home. They don't know why she needed so much oxygen so they lowered her blood pressure medicine assuming that she is getting too much now. It takes 24-36 hours for the medicine to kick in but she has only missed one dose at 10 pm last night. It's only been 12 hours, they also increased the dose of a different drug and this morning she is sitting at 101. The nurse practitioner came in and said she's leaning towards sending her home today but my gut feeling says it's just too soon. How I wish that I just knew :)
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