The Roller Coaster, Part 2........

Ahhhhhhhhh well. I guess the first car has the best view.

So.........the past two days have been rough. Neither of the two different regimens of antibiotics we've used to bring this fever she's had since Sat. am back down has worked, and today it became clear from her blood work that some kind of different infection is the cause. So as a precaution, she was re-admitted to the ICU (we've spent the past week in the PCU, or progressive care unit, that halfway step between critical care and a "regular" room on another floor of the hospital); we're even back in the same room as we we're last time. The doctors administered another, different set of antibiotics this morning that will take about 12 hours to have an effect, if they're going to, so we may know more by the morning.

Still no clear explanation as to the how or where or why of this infection (at least not yet), and so the door has to be left open to the possibility that this is actually something presenting itself that might have been the cause of her crisis in the first place, 4 weeks ago tomorrow. They never did determine the cause of that event, and so this could be somehow related (or be the beast itself, I suppose). Or not. We're back, I'm afraid, if only for the short term, to crossing our fingers and hoping for the best.

Her numbers (heart rate, BP, oxygenation, etc.) are stable, and her spirits are good. She still travels through Crazyland from time to time, delirium brought on by the fever, but otherwise she's hanging in there. The hope is that either this time around they'll find something significant and clearly diagnose it, or at the very least these antibiotics will handle the infection, and we'll be headed back to the PCU shortly.

Tomorrow's another day.

More to come.

-- Paul