Back in the hospital

Monday Katie started having some cramping in her bladder/urethra. Tuesday it got worse and she also had some other symptoms of the infection so I thought it best to call Dr. M's office and she wanted us to come to the hospital and be admitted since the bacteria is only sensitive to IV abx. So we had dinner out and went in through the ER last evening. Dr. M wants to wait until the results culture we sent last night to be sure we're treating the right thing. I'm not sure why she feels that way since the last one we have was from UMMS. Anyway, she's on the schedule for Friday to get a new PICC placed. They're still reserving the right to cancel that. I suppose they might cancel it if the culture comes back saying a different bacteria that could be treated orally... who knows.

Katie is pretty miserable. She was supposed to start swim lessons this coming Tuesday but that can't happen now, even if she's on oral meds we can't be sure she'd be able to swim due to potential side effects of the abx. We're trying to talk to the docs about her qualify of life with all these infections because we're obviously frustrated and Katie isn't handling things well.

I'll try to keep you posted but I'm also considering adding another author to the blog who can post for me because I hate to leave Katie to go to the computer room because Katie can't come there due to still being on contact precautions.