Good News.......

Happy Halloween to one and all. As Yoda might say, "This day better was for Sonja!!"

Today was, in fact, a much better day. Apparently the antibiotics that we went to yesterday morning have worked, and her blood work is indicating that the infection is on it's way out. Unfortunately, we've still no idea where it came from, or what part of her body it sited in or affected. That's ok...."better still better is".

Replaced the feeding tube (thin and not painful) down Sonja's nose in order to help her ingest enough contrast fluid to light up her intestines for another cat scan. The point here was to double check again that the diverticular abscess and consequent perforation of her intestinal wall that she suffered 10 years ago (also on Halloween...that's a little spooky) had not in some way occurred again. The test came back negative.....so that's not the problem (assuming of course that the scan was fully accurate....10 years ago we were 4 cat scans into the problem before it finally showed up in another, separate test). We're still in the ICU, but that could change with a move back to the step-down, Progressive Care Unit as early as tomorrow. We'll see how she's doing in the morning.

So........hopefully we're back on the right track. Holding that thought, have a happy Day (or Night) of the Dead, and more to come soon!!

-- Paul