Not so much

Tuesday's culture came back with less than 70,000 colony forming units of VRE. In English, she has an infection with the same bacteria as the last one. The volume of bacteria is kind of low so Dr. M doesn't want to treat the infection. She wants us to go back to every day irrigations with the acedic acid (we had gotten permission from Dr. V's office to do it just every other day after the first clean culture.) She wants to repeat the culture next week and she wants us to see Dr. V in a few weeks. Obviously Katie is really unhappy because the irrigations are painful for her. I have an email out to her psychologist who taught her some pressure point relaxation techniques, maybe she can give her some pointers to help her through, she's also a fan of aroma therapy and knows what scents to use for certain things.

So, that's where we are...