Loving Taylor

A very quick post as I am so tired I am having a hard time staying awake. A minor complication caused me to stay up the entire night last night. Taylor's temperature actually dropped well below normal which can also be a sign of infection or sepsis. So, her temperature was checked almost hourly along with her blood pressure. Her temperature has normalized today but they have done blood cultures again to rule out any new infection.

Spoke with the doctors on her lung CT. Because one of the nodules got smaller and the other stayed the same, they have decided to watch the nodules for now and see what happens. She is already on anti-fungal medication so she is hopefully covered if they are fungal infections. Good news that no new tests are needed right now, bad news that the nodules are still there and we are not positive what they are.

Taylor continues to be on 24 hour TPN. She is allowed to eat foods now but only takes bites....she isn't really interested in eating and still requires morphine for the stomach pain. She also had to receive another platelet transfusion today. She continues to burn through platelets at a very fast rate.

The plan for discharge is hopefully sometime in the near future...early next week IF.....Taylor starts eating and has no more diarrhea, and has no more fevers, and has no infection that grow back in her cultures. Alot of things have to fall into place before she can go home. Her counts are well above where she needs to be for discharge. Her bone marrow aspiration will most likely happen toward the end of January.

That is all for me.....way to drained and tired!!