Posted on 09/14/2016 2:07:46 PM PDT by NEMDF
Every morning Alyssa Fairbanks takes a palmful of pills. Twelve to be exact.
Green, white, brown, yellow, purple — calcium, vitamin D, magnesium and potassium for muscle cramps. Diuretics to keep toxins flushing, fluids moving. They tend to pool in her abdomen, which became so distended in May she was airlifted to Salt Lake City to drain the liquid from her petite frame.
She takes her medication upstairs in her bedroom, a loft directly above where two parents are trying to feed a tableful of kids. It’s not private, there is no door. But it is home for now, and a place she can pause for just a brief moment.
“I don’t take them in front of the kids,” she said, swallowing the pills in one fell swoop with a couple of gulps of an iced coffee drink. “They mostly know they’re not candy at this point but ...”
She must drink all day, doing the heavy lifting for her diseased liver or ammonia builds up in her brain and she can’t think straight.
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The article is a reminder of the need for organ donors.
They tend to pool in her abdomen
I am not sure what you are asking. I think it says that she takes diuretics due to the fluids tend to pool in her abdomen. The writing quality of the article might not be the best (but we have seen much worse!).
The key word here is “pool.” Normal people’s alimentary canals keep the contents moving from entrance to exit.
There is a form of dialysis in which fluid is injected into the abdominal cavity, then drained. This is for people who cannot use the regular form of dialysis.
What is normally excreted in the kidneys pools into the abdomen.
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