Doris ill at Univ of Iowa
by: donna
Please pray for Doris. She was ambulanced to Muscatine ER and then on to Univ of Iowa Hospitals on Saturday with lethal levels of potassium, kidney failure, and seizures. She is in Cardiac Intensive Care on 4th floor.
They were able to reverse the potassium levels which could have caused her to code at any minute. Slowly they have brought her other medication levels back to her normal. She had been vomiting on occasion starting Thursday and seemed to have a bug of some sort. Saturday morning she went into seizures while we girls were out to Farm & Fleet for a few minutes. Anna and Joseph found her and got Pat who called 911. The paramedics were there as we rushed back. During her ambulance ride to the Univ they had to shock her once as her heart was irratic.
She now is battling significant pneumonia. They are also transfusing her from an unknown blood loss source. Her kidneys are beginning to produce urine again thankfully. She has a face mask to help her breath as she was too weak to breath deep enough to keep the air flow right.
Please pray for our Doris. They say she is a model patient. Mary, Jeanie, Don & Sherrie, and I are taking turns staying with her day and night. Ron & Linda were up Sunday also.
Yours in prayer,
Donna