Still here...

Last night MG seemed more irritable and uncomfortable, especially during treatments and continues to run fever. However, her oxygen levels have remained pretty good on low levels. She's still been up and down today. She will start to make little appearances of feeling better and then just weak and tired and not eating very much.  We got a couple different opinions today from two doctors, one said she thought her lungs sounded better and we could cut her breathing treatments to "as needed" and then two hours later another doctor said she thought MG's lungs sounded worse and wanted her back on the treatments every three hours. Ugh....so I know she needs the treatments, but was getting hopeful that she was improving faster.

Then later this afternoon, she was still running fever and they did bloodwork and chest xray. The xray looked about the same, but her wbc and inflammatory markers had risen. So they believe she is borderline in having a bacteria infection that would require antibiotics. But here's where it gets complicated.....the antibiotics would also treat her staph rod infection IF it is still trying to return. And we don't want to mask that infection, because we need to know if it's still there. Basically the doctors said it is up to us, our decision. So, I think we are going to wait until tomorrow and see how she is and then make a decision.

Please pray for us and the doctors to come up with the best treatment plan for MG and for God to just go before us. All of MG's issues make things more difficult and complicated and with expansion surgery two weeks away (which she needs) it's just a lot to try and comprehend and make wise choices for her. We are exhausted and Lee is actually staying tonight at the hospital....after last night I was just about to hit a wall. After a long night, a lab tech came in at 5:00 am, flipped on the lights and woke her up to draw labs (which took three sticks). After that I told her nurse that no one else can come in for the next 3-4 hours, no one needs to check her vitals or anything...she needed to sleep. So, Lee said it was definitely time for me to take a break :)

We covet your prayers for all the things mentioned above...healing, wisdom about treatment, and strength and endurance for all of us. I'm just ready for my baby to feel better.