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A groggy Kate called this morning to say she had a temp and they’d done a chest x-ray.\u00a0 Maybe pneumonia.\u00a0 The adage after surgery is wind, water, wound.\u00a0 That is, look for an infection first in the lungs, second in the kidneys\/bladder and third in the wound itself.\u00a0 This seemed to fit.\u00a0 My mind danced over the possibility of these superbugs, among them pneumoccocus strains. Let that thought dance right out again.\u00a0 No need to worry about something I don’t know.<\/p>\n
So, I canceled my Latin, did the errands and drove in to make sure I did know what was going on.\u00a0 After a while, Dr. Stein came in, a good doc, a hospitalist we met a year ago when Kate had the other hip done.\u00a0 He looked at her oxygen saturation and her temp.\u00a0 O2 sat was fine; her temp slightly elevated at 102.\u00a0 In his judgement the temp could be the result of the stress of surgery.\u00a0 Her hemoglobin dropped to 7 though, so they ordered her two units of blood.<\/p>\n
We ate lunch together, talked about this and that, the dogs, the bees, Mark, her friends.\u00a0 She got some new drugs for pain and was about to head into lala land, so I came home for a nap myself.<\/p>\n
Everything seems fine, given the trauma of the surgery.\u00a0 Whew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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