A reasonably hopeful day

Mina Brigitta's MRI went just fine this morning. She woke up from the sedation and chatted with the nurse for a few minutes before I got there. She'd had a slight fever when I woke up about 8:30, but she was cool as a cucumber when we brought her back to the room two hours later. The good news is that nothing showed up in the scan. They still don't think her sinus issue is a fungal infection. However, they still want to get a sample to be sure, so they'll do a biopsy on Tuesday when she's down for her bone marrow biopsy. They also looked at the bump on her back, and said it showed signs of a "classic hemangioma" (a hemangioma is a generally harmless collection of blood vessels; read more here: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001459.htm). There was a slight worry that it was a chloroma, which is a collection of leukemia cells.

The doctors agreed to take off two of the antibiotics she's been on, on the off chance that the Zosyn is the cause of the fevers. I was hoping that would mean the end of the fevers, but she spiked again this afternoon. Still, she had a pretty good day today, was up and playing from about 5:00 to 9:00. She didn't have quite the sparkle she had yesterday, but it was still fun to see her with some energy. The doctors are pretty optimistic at this point that nothing serious is going to turn up and that she's just going to continue to improve. Hopefully we'll never know what the cause of the fevers was, they'll just go away and that will be that.

On a sadder note, I got word today that my Grandma Callard has been hospitalized with bleeding of the brain. At 93, they won't be able to operate. It's hard to be stuck here in San Francisco at a time like this, but there's a little girl who needs me. Kari is coming tomorrow night and will stay until Tuesday, so I'm sure we'll be sharing some Grandma stories.