Infection.....

From the blood cultures taken yesterday, one of the lumens coming from her PICC line tested gram positive. The weird part of it all is that her white blood cell count was lower today than yesterday BEFORE the antibiotics started. Things that make you go hmmmmmmm. (remember that song??) ha ha So, today they went ahead and took a urine sample as well just to make sure the right antibiotics are on board. Lindsay also had ALL of her stitches removed today. Three chest tube sites and her canulation site from being on ECMO. One step closer everyday............
The antibiotics will last 2 or 3 days and hopefully they won't have to pull that PICC because we still need it for diuretics (which they will start to ween starting tomorrow or so), now antibiotics, and for lipids. Her feeds are going fairly well now and she is back to 35 cc's per hour and her goal is 40. The other change that they made was changing the frequency of her Valium dose. She will now be on a 0.1 ml dose (very small but it works great!) every 8 hours instead of every 4 hours from 9a until 9p and nothing at night. With the other, she was snowed all day long and just slept instead of doing physical therapy, etc. Today has been much better and we have seen many more smiles! Praying for even better days ahead!
Love, Suzie