Supportive Medicine...

Sadly things with Miss Lucy have not changed much.  Her temperature is high, greater than 105.  Cultures are still negative, which means the likelihood that this is bacterial/treatable is dwindling.  We sent separate fungal cultures from her line yesterday afternoon just to cover all of our bases.  If she has a fungal line infection it should show up on a regular blood culture,...

Sick...

Despite being on antibiotics for 24 hours Lucy's temperatures have gone up.  Her heart rates are elevated (160/170bmp), fever and pain are contributing to this even with all of the anti epileptics that she is taking.  These types of meds have a tendency to lower heart rates. I imagine that her heart rates would been even higher if she were not taking these meds.  Her blood counts...

It's been awhile...

Long time no write, I know. I took a conscious break from electronics for a while as life has been crazy busy. I felt the need to cut back on somethings and blogging was temporarely one of them. Then my computer decided that it needed a break as well and it has stopped working all together...ugh. I have so much I want to share with you, but for right now I wanted to let you know Lucy and I are...