Good News.... NO fever at all today!! Thank goodness. Cultures are all still negative so hopefully whatever was brewing or growing got squashed when the antibiotics were started. They decreased her Fentanyl drip again today, and she has done great, no extra doses of sedation needed, and she pretty much slept all day.
The only negative thing today was that she has been started on a blood thinner. During the ordeal with getting her new PICC the other day, they found she had a blood clot in her leg. In the area where she had a central line and her cardiac cath done (femeral/groin area). So they think the clot may just be related to all the trauma she had from those things in the past. An ultrasound confirmed it and hemotology was consulted. She had lots of tests that I cant really explain done to check how her blood coagulates. They do not think this is a really big deal, the clot seems stabilized and they are not concerned about it moving around. The blood thinner she is getting is given twice a day, and she basically needed to be stuck to give it. So in an effort to avoid sticking her multiple times a day for an unknown (right now) timeframe. A small catheter port was placed in her leg and she gets the injections into. She just started her 1st injection earlier today and her levels will be checked to ensure she is getting the right amount of the medication throughout the day.
So other than those things her day was pretty much spent sleeping and being chilled out, which is always a good thing. OH and she has her 2nd tooth coming through :)
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