May 5, 2010 - 11:00 am

Day 10
Not much happening today.  We were suppose to start her feeding just at night, but that hasn't happened yet, so Jennifer (with nutrition) was going to find out why and push for that getting started so when we go home that has already begun.  I also asked during rounds this morning about removing her IV - and was told we could go ahead and do that... the nurse came in and said when she wakes up she would take it out.  They pricked her finger this morning again to get some more blood to make sure the new medicines for blood pressure were not having any negative side affects.  She slept better last night but still had periods of restlessness and sleeplessness.  Her blood pressure was also good over night.  Best guess is that we can maybe go home tomorrow evening or Friday and work toward her improving on an outpatient basis.  The blood work to detect Pheochromo Cytoma which is a tumor that secretes a hormone that causes blood pressure to increase came back negative, so it looks like they have finally ruled that our for sure.  From rounds this morning Dr. Daryl Okamura did mention that there were still a few anomalies that had come up with some of her tests.  Nothing major just sounded like some things that that he didn't expect to see (or did expect and didn't), and he was digging into them more to see what more information he could find and to try and explain them.  Overall Ali continues to be a bit of a mystery to them... Glad to see they are still digging a little trying to make sure to cover everything and explain as much as they can. 
It's Cinco De Mayo!  Someone have a couple for us! :)