St. Patrick's Day Party

Today there was a St. Patrick's Day party at the hospital (I have no idea why it was today rather than on the 17th). Ashlyn enjoyed the craft project and cookie decorating. She thinks that sugar sprinkles are pretty great (in the picture, it is hard to see just how much sugar she really poured onto her cookie).

Lynnea's condition remains the same. She ran a fever again today, she's still on oxygen, etc. Doctors from the Infectious Diseases team came to look at her again, but they didn't really have any suggestions; they will be back to look at her again tomorrow. One of her cardiologists said that they are beginning to consider the possibility of needing to do something surgically about her wound that just won't heal (though the wound-vac seems to be helping). At this point, this is still in the early discussion phase, but if things don't change for her soon, they have to do something different because she needs to get better, and obviously, nothing that they have tried so far has worked.