Where We Stand Tonight

The good news is that it is not pneumonia.

The bad news is that it has been declared a "viral infection of the nose" and is slamming her as bad, if not worse, than pneumonia. She is very out of it due to the meds they are having to give her as well as the fevers she keeps having. Each time one breaks she has an hour or so before it comes back with a vengeance. At one point this afternoon she hit 103 which aborted their plans to give her another blood transfusion. She is having massive coughing fits, episodes of laryngitis, and is throwing up from time to time due to the infection.

She is also back on oxygen as her saturation level slid to 86 late yesterday meaning that after being ten days free of the oxygen tanks and equipment she is almost back to where she started two years ago next month when the pnuemenitis set in on her.

Needless to say she is not happy. There is no doubt that she is worse tonight so it is not a surprise that they have officially reset her discharge target date to Friday. I don't think that is realistic either as a lot of things have to happen just right for that to occur because there are multiple bad things going on right now. I really don't think she will be home until sometime next week. At the rate things are going, it would not surprise me if they moved her to ICU. Considering how things are going, I am a bit surprised that decision has not already been made.