Monday Evening

The CT scan didn't show anything significant, which is good.

We have started Rebekah on Reglan (sp?) to help with the acid reflux and will start her on Prilosec as well (they are working on the timing of it). We will hope that those two medications will solve the coughing/vomiting issues.

Meanwhile, she was on her nutrition for about an hour today when everything came back up. Uugh! Not a pretty sight. She has been coughing and dry heaving most of the day, so I wasn't convinced that it would stay down but I hoped for the best. Between last Monday and last night, she had lost a pound, which didn't exactly surprise me. I'm not panicking, yet, but I sure would like to get her tolerating her nutrition.

Her Hemoglobin and Hematocrit counts were very low, so she is receiving Red Blood. They split it into two "half units" and are infusing each half over 3 hours - instead of one unit over 4 hours. Apparently, when it is that low, they will often split it up. One more new thing learned today.

She has been tired and a little cranky (mostly because of the coughing) most of the day. Looking at her, I would not have known that her counts were that low.