Back on the drugs

Mina Brigitta's fevers continue to hover in the 100-101 range. That, combined with some redness at the site where her Broviac catheter exits her chest, convinced the doctors to go ahead with the antibiotics. They also drew blood and urine cultures to check for infections. Hopefully her fevers will go away and nothing will turn up in the cultures. It seems most likely that the fevers are caused by the RSV returning, but they can't afford to guess wrong so they bring out the big guns whenever they feel it's warranted.

Hopefully tomorrow her site will stop bleeding so they can stop with the daily dressing changes. Removing the 6 square inches of tape and cleaning the site with an alcohol-like liquid is probably the most traumatic thing our Mina Brigitta has to go through here.

Not much new on the nutrition front. She had some crackers and Cheerios for lunch. Tonight she had a little bit of soy milk, and even fed herself a few bites of rice. Hopefully tomorrow she'll start to really eat again, because if not she'll probably get a feeding tube on Friday. Trust me, girl, you don't want that!

Mom and Dad arrived today, which helps immensely. We took Isaac this afternoon and went and stuffed ourselves with Indian food, while Keri got some quality time at the hospital with Mina Brigitta. The rest of this week and next I'll be trying to catch up as best I can at work.