Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Take 2!!

It turns out we did get from there to camp without another UTI. That result reported below was actually from the stool culture we dropped off (we're trying to get Katie cleared from the contact precautions she's been on since February during every admission and that is done through stool cultures) and NOT the urine. The urine in fact came back as NO GROWTH!! That means there is NO bacterial growing in her urine! This is the first time that a UMMS sample has come back no growth since before the transplant!

How did this come about you ask? Well, Katie started having an icky side effect from the penicillin, and since it was amoxicillin that caused an over growth of something called Colostrum Difficile (C-Diff for short) and both are in the cillin family I called to see if we could reduce her dose or something. Well while looking at the report again, Dr. M's nurse realized the mistake. So we have stopped the penicillin, we're treating her bowel flora for the imbalance caused and...

WE ARE INFECTION FREE!!

How you ask when the stool culture did come back with a result... well all it said was "abundant growth" not a quantitative amount and with Katie's anatomy there's bound to be odd stuff in her system, as long as it's not too much, or causing symptoms, we are good to go!!

And finally!! that stool culture result was the 3rd out of 3 that we needed so, in the event we need to be inpatient again, Katie is free of the contact precautions!!

Tears of joy!

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