After the D&C

I want to thank everyone who covered Heather in Prayer. She actually had a fairly good afternoon and evening on Wed night and then did really outstanding Thursday. A few breakdowns but nothing like she had been for the last week. Please continue to pray for her as it will still be rough for quite a while but certainly through the memorial on Sat.
 
A big prayer request. The “fairly routine” 20 minute procedure that we were told to expect lasted over one and maybe 2 hours, she went in at 7:30 we finally saw her at 11, but don’t know how long she was in recovery. The doctor insisted that the procedure was nothing out of the ordinary, she just lost a bit more blood than normal but nothing unusual. And that, oh yah, Heather is correct when she says she had a transfusion but nothing was unusual….And that she still needed to go home today even though she couldn’t even sit up at 3 without almost passing out.
 
The nurses who she almost passed out on didn’t agree and neither did the anesthesiologist (Who happens to be my landlord). In fact he said that her taking so long to recover was due to the very large amount of blood she lost. After her bp fell to below 50/30 each time she got up to go to the bathroom (With a ton of assistance), and never going over 98/50, the dr ordered a second transfusion and said that oh sure, no problem, she could stay overnight if she wanted too….
 
Other than feeling very dizzy and her IV’s hurting all day, (her arms are both very bruised from all the needles) she has actually done very well. She has been distracted enough just trying to cope with her physical problems that she hasn’t had time to concentrate on her loss. Then some friends came to the Hospital Thursday evening and kept her sidetracked and laughing the whole evening. I left her with her dad spending the night (I had to get back to Matt) a very tired and somewhat sore young lady.

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