Hospital Update

Her condition's much more stable now, so they transferred her out of the ICU this afternoon. I think she's recovering well - at least she looks a lot better today than she did yesterday, and should be discharged this weekend.

Out of the three main blood vessels (I'm assuming by this they're referring to the superior vena cava, inferior vena cava, and aorta - as indicated here) leading to and from the heart, one of them is 30% blocked, another is 75% blocked, and the third was 100% blocked. That is, until they did the procedure yesterday. What I'm wondering is, if it was 100% blocked, then how could any blood have gotten to other parts of the body (since they said it was an artery, i.e., the aorta)?

Or maybe instead of the blood vessels leading to and from the heart, they meant the blood vessels delivering blood to the heart muscles and not the rest of the body. That makes more sense.

Anyway, she will need to do a further procedure a couple of weeks later to try and get rid of the 75% blockage, and then will probably need to be on medication afterwards.

Man, it sucks when you get old.

Thanks to everyone for their well wishes and support.