Hospital Recap 2 (Heather on magnesium)

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Heather started some sort of magnesium drug.  It suppresses her nervous system which relaxes her, it also has been shown to help the baby's brain when given shortly before delivery.  Due to the drug the last post that heather wrote was quite unreadable before I edited it.  She has a hard time concentrating enough to get through writing a post.   The magnesium also makes her hot and her face is a little red and flushed.  Last night her face was really red and I thought she had a fever.  The nurse took her temp and it was fine.  She looks better now.
     This drug has a tendency to create fluid in th lungs.  They are monitoring heather's oxyigen in her blood to ensure that she is getting enough o2.  They said given the amount of oxygen in her blood they can tell that there is no flood in her lungs.  They are counting every ml of fluid she drinks.  She gets to drink very little.  If they let her drink a lot then it would increase the liklihood of developing fluid in the lungs. 
They are also monitoring the amount of magnesium in her blood.  They draw blood to test this every 6-12 hours. 

They are giving her a lot of care and watching her closely.

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