Staying another night | yosoyrosa's Blog

In all the research I did about the procedure, it was cited to be very rare that a patient stays more than one night, but here we are.  Apparently the blood chemistry isn't where they want it to be, blood oxygen saturation kept dropping to the point where the monitor above my head would send out an alarm and release was stalled until the level could be maintained. 

We also had an issue where the blood pressure monitor top number (systolic) was still elevated to the 185-205 range, and the normal read is more like 120-150.  Figuring this may be due to the level of pain medication administered over the past day, the transition was made from Diloted IV to Norco by mouth.  There was also a number of times my love complained of pain on his right side where the procedure was performed, they took a chest xray as a precaution. 

The good news is that one of the IR team visited with us today, and confirmed the largest lesion in the right lobe had been successfully treated.  In 6 weeks we'll be back for the 2nd tumor confirmed in the left lobe, and at that time they'll use the angio to more completely review the liver.  Good news, there is a chance that only 2 cancerous tumors to be treated exist at this time as the other suspicious areas are still unconfirmed.  They couldn't confirm during this procedure as the hematoma was too high a concern.

Wierd, we've not left and we're already scheduling a return visit, guess it is kindof like a vacation?