In the hospital

I apologize about not many updates on the blog past 10 days or so. Just started a new job and been very busy unfortunately.

Andrea had to be rushed to the emergency room last Tuesday night in Indianapolis. She is currenly at IU Medical getting care for a possible infection. She was in Indy visiting her parents and family and, then, on last Tuesday night she had a fever of 102. We thought she may have been past her danger point because her counts were up. However, if anything we have learned from her condition is to expect the unexpected.

She was taken to IU Medical and has been receiving antibiotics and antifungal medications. The doctors there are not sure yet what is going on. They believe it may be an infection. Her blood cultures so far have come back negative for infections, but sometimes it takes many days/week for bacteria or fungus to grow. She also had to have her PICC line replaced with another type of line. The PICC had moved and the doctors thought it may be a source of infection as well. Along with the PICC being removed, she also had a spinal tap to make sure there is no infection in her central nervous system or brain. Andrea has been having severe headaches so doing the spinal tap seemed prudent.

She had those two procedures done last night under sedation. She came out just fine. Hopefully she will be feeling better today. I will once again try and keep everyone updated and I am hoping this is a small bump in the road to recovery.