Monday Morning

It was a rough night. By the time we got Rebekah settled into her room, Resident seen, blood cultures drawn, antibiotics administered it was nearly 1am - well past Rebekah's bed time. Then Mommy had to get her stuff from the van and it was nearly 2am before Mom got to bed. Then there were alarms going off throughout the night and by 7am, Rebekah was awake and raring for the day.

They started her on IV Fluids, but chose to hold off on the nutrition until morning.

We went down for a Chest X-Ray early this morning, which showed a little bit of something in her airway - not too bad, but something. The antibiotics that she is on may help with that - if it is bacterial.

During the Endoscopy last week, they took a little bit of tissue for biopsy. The biopsy showed some acid reflux, so we will begin to treat Rebekah for that with Reglan.

The Ear/Nose/Throat doctor came in this morning to look at Rebekah. He wants a CT, so we will be going down for that in a little while. She hadn't been started on the nutrition, yet, so we were able to get the CT scheduled pretty quickly. Because she will need anesthesia, she needs to have an empty stomach. We had just gotten everything we needed to start it up, when doc came in.

We will be here until at least tomorrow night, but there is some hope that we might get out of here tomorrow night. I'm not going to hold my breath. Meanwhile, Rebekah has an appointment with the Opthamologist Wednesday afternoon. I'm not cancelling it yet, but we will have to wait and see. It all depends on whether anything shows in the cultures and if her fevers continue. She has to be fever free for at least 24 hours, have 48 hours of antibiotics and clear 48 hour cultures.

Daddy is at home working and frustrated that he is not here with us and not sure whether to bring the trailer down later. It would be nice to know for sure when we would be able to leave, but we just can't know for sure.