Conflicting Information

Last night Erika did not sleep that well. I think she got a total of two hours sleep. I think her breathing was bothering her and making it so she couldn't rest. This morning she was still a little more short of breath than the previous days since the hydration. The Oncologists that were on duty said that the right side of her lung is filling up with some more fluid again, which is the side that no longer has the chest tube. However her Thorasic doctor that came in the afternoon told us the complete opposite, that her lung was not filled with fluid and she wasn't sure why she was having the shortness of breath. Two different doctors, with contradictory information, who are we to believe? To say the least it was a frustrating day today.

No plan yet to remove the chest tube on the left side. To me it looked like it was still putting out quit a bit of fluid to remove it, but the Thorasic team will assess the output in the morning and make a decision.

Erika was in and out of sleep most of the day, since she hadn't gotten much sleep last night they gave her Benedryl to try and make her rest. I suggested a sleeping pill but the nurses like to reserve the sleeping pills only for the night. And besides Erika is reluctant to take any kind of sleeping pill as she is afraid of having a hallucination. Hopefully she can get a good night sleep tonight on her own.

Two very special visitors came to see Erika today. Francesca and Pebbles somehow snuck their way into Erika's hospital room for a brief visit, which made her really happy. I'm hopping this weekend will be uneventful and I am crossing my fingers that this set of doctors go off rotation as both Erika and I detest the current Attending's lack of good bedside manners.