Good Evening
Since I sent out an email this morning, this one might be shorter. Andrea was sleeping before 9 tonight, hopefully for the night as she had a busy day. Her white cell count was going up so she was started on 2 different broad spectrum antibiotics. When this happens as it often does, first thing is to identify the posible sources, one of the first culprits is the IV lines, so this afternoon they changed out the line in the right side of her neck and the arterial line in the groin. When lines are in a long time they tend to get bacteria at the end of the line, so they like to change them out for new sterile ones. They have been checking stool samples regularly for C Diff and so far they are all negative. Hopefully the antibiotic takes care of the problem. The surgeon said yesterday that baby steps were all that could be hoped for, as long as they were in the right direction. Kidney dialysis is still going, don't know for how much longer. Have a good night.
Thanks, Maynard
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