April 22nd

Remember Jodi’s rule, anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. Jodi went to her own home and did a lot of fun things. She gave both her boys a bath, dressed them, got them breakfast and cleaned some of her home. She was very tired when it was time to go to see her Dr. in SLC at the U of U. Before we left, she used the bathroom and we were surprised to see that she had started to bleed again from the site where they inserted the needle for her angiogram last Monday. It was not a huge amount of blood so I told her to put pressure on it until I got her to the U of U hospital to see the Dr. It had stopped bleeding but just to be sure, we had him check it after she had walked for him. Much to our surprise, it was bleeding-----A LOT. All of her underclothes were drenched and within minutes so were her outer clothes. They immediately applied pressure and then she was taken to radiology where they used an ultrasound to find out why the artery was bleeding. They applied pressure to the sight for about an hour before it stopped bleeding so that they could do the ultrasound. After, they decided that the best thing that they could do was continue to apply pressure while they watched with the ultrasound to see if it clotted properly. All together she spent four additional hours in the hospital until they felt that it had clotted enough for her to safely go home. They sent us home with emergency phone #’s and told her to stay off of that leg and not do any therapy for at least another week or until the sight appears to have completely healed and was sealed off with skin. It was scary but we were glad that when it happened we were already at the hospital with such good doctors and nurses to take care of her. More tomorrow.

Connie