I came back to Philly yesterday (Friday) and Katie Mei seemed much better than she had been. She was still showing signs of bowel discomfort and had a bad case of constipation. Also her sodium and potassium levels were low, so she's been given a high-salt diet and an oral potassium supplement which is like drinking straight salt water in a very high concentration.
After enough doses of this potassium, she has started throwing up. Everything she ate today came back up, and she is now back on IV solutions to bring the sodium and potassium back up. She is miserable from the vomiting and doesn't want to eat anything because (I think) her throat burns from the salt. She has been coughing a dry cough whenever she swallows and I don't think it's from any kind of congestion.
On a good note, the fluid in her lung cavity is diminished from yesterday and her oxygen levels are up. Her oxygen flow was reduced this morning and she still stayed right around 90%.
So she's doing okay. Not great because of the eating, but not bad because she's showing improvement and healing in the heart and lungs.
Please continue to hold her in prayer.
Love,
Petrie
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