Day +44: Some worries creeping in

Mina Brigitta had another very nice day today. She was awake and alert and interacting with everyone for most of the day. Grandma and Grandpa are spending the night at the hospital tonight, as I'm not feeling totally up to snuff yet and don't want to risk exposing her. They are already beginning to get a little worried about a viral infection. She continues to have low-grade fevers, and today they noticed she some fluid in one of her lungs and thought she was breathing a bit shallower. Some of this could still be residual from being so sedentary, but she's been spending a lot more time awake the last few days so that should be clearing up. They're going to do another CT scan tomorrow to look for any signs of infection. She still has a ways to go before her defenses start building back up, so we need to keep her nice and clean.

The other news from today is that she has another bacterial infection, so they're putting her back on the vancomycin after two days off. This one is a staph infection, which is another slow-growing infection that so far hasn't set her back much. Again, even though she is very vulnerable to viral and fungal infections, her high level of neutrophils give her a lot of ability to hold off bacteria until the antibiotics kick in, so hopefully this will clear as quickly as the last one did.