Hospital Update - still there....

Dad here again.
Sorry for the delay in updating the site. It has been quite hectic with this hospital stay. This is the longest unexpected stay that Elizabeth has had.

Well, she is still at Children’s hospital and it will be at least a couple more days. After some delays, and some urgent paging to Bethie’s surgeon by Emilie, they decided on the CT guided needle biopsy and drain tube. This was done last Friday afternoon. It took about 45 minutes and this time Elizabeth had a tough time coming out of the anesthesia.

When I tracked her down in the recovery room, she was very agitated and fighting to keep the oxygen mask off. It definitely was one of her more difficult recoveries from sedation. I took the boys to McDonalds and Mom helped get her back up to the room so that she could get back on the morphine. They started the morphine the day before to help with the discomfort from the coughing and fluid pressure. She couldn’t lie on her back most of the weekend, but by Sunday afternoon lie on it a little about an hour after her morphine doses.

Overall, she is doing well. Although getting bored with the hospital room. Since she came in with such a nasty cough, they put her in an isolation room. Which means she can not leave at all. Well, except to go get the needle biopsy. That was the big trip out.

So far, the cultures have been coming back negative after about 24 hours. We should find out today if there is any sign of bacterial growth. If it is not infection, we are not sure what they are going to want to do. She has another CT scheduled for this morning. Hopefully, with the fluid out, they will be able to see better what is going on.

We will keep juggling things and update with more information soon.

Take care everyone.