Trudie's blood pressure dropped dangerously low last night. Her nurse - Hazel (a guy - I think) had doctors up all night.
ICU
Today, her nurse Dorrell had her evaluated by the ICU Resp. PA, Dylan. He called his boss, Dr Steven Accarino, who said that she needed the additional monitoring and help in ICU.
New tumors
Dr Accarino also showed me new lisions in her lung. The cancer seems to be more aggressive than initially thought.
Infection
Dr Mitchell Blass, Infectious Disease, said that the germ was growing a culture. He said that while they had not definitive that it was gram-negative rod bacterium. From wikipedia:
The proteobacteria are a major group of Gram-negative bacteria, including Escherichia coli, Salmonella, and other Enterobacteriaceae, Pseudomonas, Moraxella, Helicobacter, Stenotrophomonas, Bdellovibrio, acetic acid bacteria, Legionella and alpha-proteobacteria as Wolbachia and many others. Other notable groups of Gram-negative bacteria include the cyanobacteria, spirochaetes, green sulfur and green non-sulfur bacteria.
She is fighting it.
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