When the phone rings after 6pm on a Friday and the number comes up as a UMMC number... I get nervous, when I answer the phone and it's Dr. M's soft phone voice I get even more nervous, tonight that was unnecessary. She called to tell us that the preliminary results from the 2/5 culture came back showing no growth and she considers that a clean culture. Her blood labs from yesterday were great also, her creatinine is 0.78 and her prograf level is 10. The prograf is doing exactly what she wants to see it do, it's trending up around the time that she would normally want to make an adjustment down in the amount she's getting. She also mentioned to Steve that we're getting close to a point where she would want to adjust her cell cept down also.
We all agree that we still want to have one more clean urine culture from the UMMC lab before we pull the PICC line, that sample will be dropped off down there on Wednesday 2/11 with results on either 2/12 or 13.
She is still bothered by the fact that there is still mucous in her bladder. She has message into Dr. V for him to help us come up with a plan to make sure we're getting that mucous out of there on a regular basis. Steve and I aren't sure what that's going to entail, either going up in size on the catheters or doing some kind of bladder irrigations.
Katie had her second to last Cytogam infusion yesterday (2/5) she just has one more on 3/5 then we're done with that.
Maybe... just maybe, this blog will get quiet for a while.
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