Nothing much has changed in the last few days. Rachana is still stable but critical. Stable means her condition is not constantly deteriorating, but Critical means the doctors are not sure if it’ll continue to get better, i.e. they are unsure of how things will unfold. Medically there is nothing much happening other than support.… Read More ICU Day 57 – Wait & See
50 days in the ICU, in one room, on one bed, and barely moving a few inches – let that sink in……….. well, the reality is much more difficult than what you perhaps imagined. Rachana is stable but in critical condition, and the doctors think it’ll be like that for a while. Until she is on the ventilator she’ll… Read More ICU Day 50 – Stable but critical
Rachana is making slow, but much needed, progress. Her fever still shows up every 2-3 days. Last night it touched 101.5 and our hearts sank again, but she recovered well today. She is now fully awake and communicating, but not fully mentally aware. After all these days in the ICU, on a single bed, and… Read More ICU Day 45 – Long Road Ahead
So many of you have enquired, messaged, called, wished, and prayed for Rachana. I cannot thank you all enough. When she is back to being healthy I’m sure she’ll be overwhelmed hearing about this support and encouragement. All those wishes and prayers have to help her, there is no other way! Fever is now the… Read More ICU Day 42 – Cautiously optimistic
Rachana is still sedated but off the paralytic meds. She looks calm and her vitals (heart rate, BP, oxygenation) are ok. She developed a fever last night and we hope it’s just the existing bacterial vegetation on her heart that is causing this, for which she is getting antibiotics. The doctors are still focusing on her… Read More ICU Day 40 – Lungs first
Things are at a standstill, which is not good cause she’s swimming upstream. There are three separate, but related, issues she is dealing with Pneumonia: The lung infection, caused by staph infection, is running in circles. We get better for a couple of days and then get a setback. For the last two days her right chest tube… Read More ICU Day 37 – Standstill
I guess you cannot go lower than your heart stopping. So after that episode 2 days ago, Rachana has had a good rebound. Yesterday we had the kids drop by and Rachana was awake for about 4-5 hours, which has never happened in the last 30 days. The kids were excited to come see mama,… Read More ICU Day 34 – Two good days
Today, Rachana’s heart stopped from 4:40 pm to 4:51 pm. In the morning she complained about chest pain on the left side but the pain went away with a few setting changes on the ventilator. Later in the afternoon her BP dropped and there was a rush of nurses to stabilize her with pressors (BP… Read More ICU Day 32 – 11 minutes
Rachana's recovery from Leukemia 