GOOD NIGHT, LOTS OF DIAPERS!

Kaidence had a pretty good night, but a lot of diarrhea. Most likely from all of the antibiotics. The docs are still boggled as to how she has picked up this infection. We are still waiting for negative cultures. They may let Kaidence start eating, not sure yet though.

Does anybody have any DAVIS COUNTY CLIPPERS from Tuesday? I just need the page with the baby birthday's. I placed a picture of Kaidence in the paper and was so busy with her throwing up that I forgot and never got one for ourselves. I needed a couple to put with her other scrapbook stuff. If you do have them will you please save them for us?

Thanks for all of your prayers.

FEELING BETTER!

Kaidence seems happy today. The Dr's are very surprised at how well she has handled this septic blood infection while being immunosuppressed. They are also surprised at how quickly she has bounced back. She was very sick but anybody with this type of infection would be. We feel very blessed. She is still not fully back to her normal self but we are getting closer and her antibiotics seem to be working. The doctors don't feel that she is ready to eat still and she also still seems to need her oxygen. So we still have a few things to work on. I have noticed her starting to cough, hoping nothing comes of it.

BLOOD INFECTION!!!

Yesterday afternoon Kaidence was placed on some heavy duty antibiotics and she seems to have responded well. Her fever finally broke and the vomiting stopped. She is getting back some strength but looks rough. Her blood cultures came back positive, meaning that she does have an infection in her blood and they think that is why she got so sick so fast. They are waiting for the specific infection to be identified and most likely will not know that until tomorrow. Kaidence will need to stay until they can figure the best antibiotics for whatever infection she has and have a pic line placed for going home with for antibiotics. They won't place the line however until her cultures come back negative. They will continue to watch her closely to be sure she doesn't get worse. We may go home Monday-ish.

FEELING YUCKY!!!

Kaidence is still feeling pretty yucky. Her fever is still pretty high. Her respiratory panel came back negative (meaning no RSV .....). They are still waiting for urine and blood cultures. They are very unsure as to what is going on. She has started needing oxygen and they are watching her closely and may possibly move to the PICU. Her echo looked good. Her pulmonary pressures are higher than they normally are but they don't seem too concerned about that yet. Tylenol doesn't do much for her fever and because of transplant stuff she can't ever have Ibuprofen. They have moved all of her meds over to IV and she is not allowed to take anything by mouth. We will continue to keep you posted. Coming back is a great reminder for the many ways that we have been blessed. We still have a lot of sick friends that are still here. Are prayers are with them as always.

NOT GOING HOME!

Ok, so we all know that you never go into the hospital for only a day. It just never seems to work out that way. We thought that Kaidence was doing better and that we would be discharged today. The high fever and vomiting came back about 2:30 this morning. The poor thing is just miserable. The fact that she really knows how things go here with IV's and everything else does not help. They can start getting equipment ready for something and she knows what is going to happen next. She just groans and whimpers all day long. Her heart rate and respiration are up as well. They have taken a lot of test to try to find what is happening. They also did a chest x-ray. We are waiting for the doctors and we will keep the blog posted whenever we learn of more.

BACK AT PRIMARY'S!

Kaidence had a busy day today. We woke up this morning early to get to PCMC to do our interview for the PCMC radio-a-thon. Before we left the house Kaidence started throwing up. She has thrown up all afternoon and started getting very lethargic and also feverish. She was not wetting her diapers and she kept throwing up all of her heart meds. Unfortunaly we have to have those rejection drugs and so we are back at Primary's tonight trying to get her rehydrated, medicated and find out what she has. She seems to be doing better tonight. She has not thrown up for a few hours. We are hoping to go home tomorrow.

I am still trying to get the slideshow and all 3 of the songs working. May take a little longer than thought.

SLIDESHOW PROBLEMS

We are having problems with the slideshow. Check back and hopefully it will be working later tonight. The music is no longer playing and we are missing pictures to it.

Thanks
Shauntelle