Room 51 West

Unfortunelty we are back in the hospital. Total suprise. We came in for our normal counts and realized Alivia had a fever. She didn't have one last night or even this morning but sometime on the ride here she developed one. So then they realized her heart rate was fast. So they sent us for a chest x-ray. Turns out she has pneumonia. Poor little lady. It came on really fast and is called silent lung because you wouldn't know by listening that she has it. It is diffused throught the lungs instead of all being in one place. So we already had round one of IV antibiotics. And she is getting red blood cells. We will be in the hospital for 5-7 days...although there is a slight outside chance it might go great and we could get out in 3. Tomorrow we will have a bronchioscope (no idea how to spell it) under anesthesia. They will put a scope down her throat into her lungs get stuff to culture. Not lung tissue...I don't really understand it. We will have a consult with the anesthesiologist and the pulminary doc tonight. They might have to intubate. Not looking forward to any of this. Also there is a chance they will just leave her intubated for a while. that means ICU. No thanks. By the way I couldn't have gotten through today with Cynthia and the nurses in the clinic. Thanks to Joanne, Cindy, Carol, Lois and Janiece. As always you blow me away with your kindness. Love you ladies.

Please pray for a quick and easy recovery. Pray that she will eat okay, that there will be no more fevers and that she will keep her oxygen levels up on her own.
Please also pray for my friend who had a baby yesterday. There were complications with her (the baby is fine) and her recovery is going to be really long and hard. Pray for her and for her family. thanks.