Out and About

The most exciting part of my day was taking a walk with Corey. Lynnea's nurse told me that I couldn't hold Lynnea again until I actually spent some time outside of the building, so we went for a walk. Yes, I know it's kind of sad when the nurses have to order me to leave the hospital for my own sanity, but it's so hard to leave. Anyway, not a whole lot new with Lynnea today. She smiled at me, which is always great. She also has her wound-vac on again; she had one on very briefly a week or two ago, but they couldn't get it to stay on the way it is supposed to, so at the time they discontinued it. Hopefully it will help her chest wound finally begin to heal the way that it should. The belief is still that her wound is the most likely source of her infection (despite negative cultures), so if they can get it to heal properly, maybe her fever will go down. They also started her on another antibiotic (in addition to the wide coverage one that she's been on for the past two weeks). This one is also an antifungal, so they are hoping that if there is any sort of fungal infection that may not have shown up on the cultures is will go away. If her fever remains unchanged after a few days of being on this new medication, they will discontinue it because there's no sense in keeping her on drugs that aren't doing her any good. I talked to one of the doctors about her CT scan. For the most part, the narrowing of her aorta was about what they had expected, and doesn't require any immediate attention, though in the long run (after she stops running a fever) they still want to go in and do a heart catherization so that they can see exactly what's going on, and then they will probably try to push a balloon through the narrow area to open it up a little bit more.