Update on Trish - November 13, 2010

Last night gave us a small setback. Trish woke up this morning to go to the restroom and felt nauseated. Her NG tube was showing signs of dark red blood. Her hemoglobin count was down to 6.8 and her blood pressure was down. This was indicating she is bleeding somewhere. They took her back to icu and scoped her. The scoped indicated that the blood was not coming from her liver, or where the roux was connected to the liver. It was not coming from her stomach, they looked around as far as the scope could reach, they could not see where the blood came from. The scope also indicated there was no fresh blood being released. What they learned is the bleeding has stopped, and has to be coming from where the roux was connected to the intestine, or where they removed the pancreatic tissue from the lower intestine. They gave her four units of blood, she is stable and they are going to monitor her hemoglobin and blood pressure. Her liver functions are fine. We expect to remain in icu for the remainder of the weekend. Right now she is doing fine.