Friday, August 27, 2010

Watching football together again

My Spin For Kids campaign. Thank you.



It's Friday night.  The Falcons are playing a pre-season game.  I turned the TV on.   Back before all this mess started, Liam used to be my sports buddy.  Liam, who was asleep all day (and most of the last several days), heard the TV and opened her eyes.  She gave two most unconvincing OOOWWWies, then just laid there with her eyes wide open.  We read a few stories (one eye kept on the game), then she went back to sleep, leaving me to suffer the Falcons alone.

Here's where things stand:
It looks like the fungus is on its way out - if not completely out already.  Earlier this week the culture came back negative and we were very hopeful that it was gone.  But that was only after 8 and 16 and 24 hours.  These results all came back negative.  But then the 36-hours culture of 8/24 came back positive.  Bummer.  However, it was explained to us that the more it takes the fungus to show up in the lab, the weaker it gets.  And indeed, the culture from 8/25 is negative.  We're hopeful that it will continue like that.  (OOOF, these Falcons are just terrible.)  Where were we?  

Earlier this week Liam had also problems breathing.  They had to put the oxygen mask on her.  Meanwhile things got better.  She is with her usual nose-thingy fro breathing.

Since they removed the vas-cath out on Tuesday, Liam didn't have any dialysis this week.  So far so good.  The target, as far as I know, is to restore a new vas-cath on Monday.  That of course is depended on the infection.

Ok Liam, I know you love football, but this game is just awful.  

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