Thursday, November 7, 2013

Serenity: 17 weeks 6 days (Corrected age: 2 weeks 1 day)

I just wanted to write a quick update for everyone.

Serenity's nurse said that two separate cultures on the fluid in Serenity's chest have tested positive for Staff Infection.

There has also been one blood culture that was positive for Staff Infection also, but we are waiting to see if this was a contaminated sample, or if it's a true positive.

Because of the positive blood culture, they have to remove her PICC line, which is her long-term IV line that is more centrally located--just to be safe. Once Staff is no longer an issue, they will be able to do another PICC line.

She has also had to have morphine a few times overnight and today. It's hard to tell with an older baby if they are just having symptoms because they are older and agitated or if they are in pain, so they want to make sure she is not in any pain.

The medicine they are giving her for the fluid in her chest appears to be helping at the moment--PRAISE THE LORD!! They have had minimal output, and x-rays show there is minimal fluid accumulation near the chest tube.

So not much by way of huge steps forward or back, but this is the nature of the NICU Waltz--small steps that generally end up going in circles, but slowly making their way from point A to point B.





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