Good news today. Shortly after my last post MK woke up around 2 AM and was hungry and wanted to talk. Since she had just started taking the steroids at 5 PM the night before, I was amazed at how quickly it made a difference. Since then she has been eating all her meals, with the exception of dinner tonight and that is because she just finished a big milkshake.
All of her vitals are good and the infectious control doctor stopped by and said that the cultures are still clear, which continues to tell everyone she does not have bacterial meningitis. By ruling out bacterial meningitis then it would be chemical meningitis and thus the treatment with steroids.
Since that time her headaches have been minor and infrequent. Today she had visitors and then watched tv for many hours and played on the computer ( she had to watch the latest version of House on the computer. You would think she had enough of the doctor thing). She is taking a nap now. So all in all a very good day so far.
All the doctors are saying that if the cultures still show no infection tomorrow then MK will be able to go home tomorrow. We are all very hopeful.
If we go home tomorrow they would prescribe her some antibiotics for the urinary infection and some more steroids. This is much better then if she did have bacterial meningitis where she would have to have a port installed so that she could continue to take IV antibiotics for over a week.
MK will most likely get her stitches removed tomorrow and then they want us to wait two days before she can get the incision area wet. A couple of more days with the greasy kid look.
Thats it for now, if anything changes I will add to this post.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment