Quick update for Sonya - She is doing okay. They were going to release her this morning but she had low blood pressure, and when they tested her standing blood pressure her heart beats per minute shot up. So they tested her hematocrit and it had dropped. They gave her some medication and we are currently waiting to test it again at 5 tonight. Hopefully we can get out of here and get some real rest.
Brenya - After about 6-7 hours after arriving at Primary they were looking at her o2 levels. They didn't look as good as they would like and at midnight they finally decided to put her on ECMO, they only put her on the veno-arterial track so the risks are not as bad. She had an inflammatory response to the machine as all healthy bodies should and she swelled up. Her urine output stopped at about the same time, so they gave her the necessary drugs to counter it. She is, as of right now, stable but on a lot of support and she started to produce urine again but not as much to get rid of all the excess fluid do to the inflammation. They have been doing some chest x-rays and the right lung seems to be expanding more which is a really good thing.
Sorry for the late post! I will update again tonight!
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