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Wednesday, July 2nd:

July 2nd, 2008 Posted in Daily News Post

So much went on today it will probably be easier to write about.

Chloe woke up, after a very restless night, to vomiting.  Luckily she kept her tube down this time.  She didn’t have any food or liquid since midnight but that didn’t stop her floodgates from opening.

The doctors came in around 10am and both Dana and Dave were there to hear their reports.  Of course those reports were that they were all puzzled.  Why the fever when nothing is growing.  They did find a little something in the stool sample but not something that would be causing 105 degree temps! 

Dana suggested the Pic Line as an invasive object that the body might just see as a threat, sending the soldier white blood cells to fight it, causing a fever.  Very possible was the response from the doctors.  So, they are changing all her meds so that they can be taken by mouth.  They will decide about taking the pic line out when they see how the oral meds are doing.

After all was said and done they decided to go ahead with the MRI, however, before that happened they decided on an ultrasound.  Chloe hated this procedure as the as the oaf that did it was not PEEDs material.  Probably used to working on old guys as he really pushed on her and was, basically rough.  She doesn’t want another of those.  It came out fine thank you very much.

Then it was off to the MRI.  We will get results of all the tests in the next couple days.  While she was in the MRI they decided to do the Spinal Tap while she was asleep.  So as soon as she came out of the cave they did that.

She came back to the room only to find out that they decided to drain the incision site.  It was off to PICU for this procedure.  It went well in there and she was back to her room by 5:45 pm. 

Everyone was in the doghouse after the MRI though.  Chloe was promised a drink of water but when the draining decision came down it stopped her from getting a drink until after that. 

After her second drug nap she woke up and immediately asked for a drink of water.  She was back!

Her temperature was down most of the day and only went up to 100 at night.  She is back in pretty good spirits, although she is completely wiped out.  This was one of her longest days.

Even though she has been here over three weeks she really hasn’t any appetite for phone calls or visitors.  She doesn’t even talk to us on the phone if she can avoid doing so.  It’s just too draining I think and there is so much noise that anything can be disconcerting.  For instance, the phone rang while we were having a doctor’s visit.  It rang for five or six times before whoever hung up.  I could see Chloe’s face.  Trust me, if we can’t get to the phone in two rings we aren’t getting to it.  It’s really a small room!  Next time we’re asking for a suite.

Blessings and be well everyone.  Ron