Anesthesia Consult

The anesthesiologist stopped by and talked to us for about 20 minutes.  She is concerned about Annie's sodium levels, but feels like the benefits of surgery (mostly of getting a central  line) far outweigh the risks right now.  Since Annie's veins are shot from all her different IVs and blood draws, its become even more important to get the central line placed so she can continue to receive her antibiotics.

It wasn't comforting to hear how nervous the anesthesiologist is about this case, especially since we couldn't get the unit of blood in Annie beforehand.  But we'll trust that she's in good hands and pray her sodium levels don't start going up while on normal saline during surgery.  The anesthesiologist anticipates giving Annie 2-3 units of blood, and she'll start giving Annie blood as soon as she goes in.

She just went back to surgery, so now we wait...