PT's DO IT AGAIN!!!!!!!

My sister has had a couple of wild days. She was having so much trouble breathing and through the testing, they found a lot of fluid in her lungs and around her heart. Last night they had to do an emergency procedure to draw fluid off her lungs. They drew 1300 cc's of fluid off her left lung and there probably is at least that much around her right lung, but they elected to wait on that until this weekend. She's on blood thinners and they didn't even want to do the procedure but they didn't have a choice. Bleeding was the least of the worries - drowning in fluid was the biggie. Well, the procedure went very well and she was breathing a little better today. Then tonight, they went in and did a procedure to drain the fluid from around her heart which was affecting the beating of her heart. She came through that well. They'll probably do the right lung tomorrow or the next day.

We still don't know what's causing the accumulation of fluid, but the good thing - NO CANCER has returned. Her CAT scan and bone scan do not show a return of the cancer.

I am so relieved - THANKS TO ALL THE PT'ers who prayed for her. I really appreciate all the help!!!