| Re: My aunt is in the ICU. Please help!
Well, my aunt is still in the hospital, out of the ICU. She was transported to a hospital that is a part of a medical school, so they are able to treat her better. The doctors are thinking it is some sort of anemia - possibly what you mentioned, but still aren't 100% sure. The thing that has the docs baffled is within the past week, since all this has been going on, my aunt has developed a spot on her brain, so they are tracking that. Before the spot developed, she was cognitively OK, now she doesn't know anyone, and can't motor plan...according to her husband...she's like a child. I'm thinking of asking my uncle if the docs have run any genetic testing...I was doing some research because the docs have been mentioning stuff about PPP and plasma. From looking on the internet, I found PPP to mean Platelet-poor plasma, which led me to a thing called Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency or G6PD deficiency. According to what I found, it "is an inheritable, x-linked recessive disorder whose primary effect is the reduction of the enzyme G-6-PD in red blood cells, causing destruction of the cells, called hemolysis. Ultimately, this hemolysis leads to anemia - either acute hemolytic or a chronic sperocytic type." On the paper that I printed about it, it says it's more predominate in blacks, but there is a variant of this gene that affects those of mediterranean descent. My grandpa was from Serbia and had blood problems, so it kind of makes you wonder...Especially since it's an X chromosome, that means it would come from my grandpa, right? Since x is male and y is female...I think.
I'm really not sure what the have my aunt on to be honest. My uncle's first language is spanish, so he really isn't clear on all of this medical lingo. I know that they do have her slightly sedated, and they have some sort of medication going through a tube in her arm leading to her heart, and they've been doing transfusions or something like that. She's been in the hospital for a good week and a half, she was actually admitted to the hospital on the 12th, and it's now the 24th.
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