Wednesday, March 23, 2011 12:29 PM

Elizabeth had another fever this morning and was working pretty hard to breath. We just found out that some of her cultures came back. And the infection is in her blood. The cultures from her PICC line and the blood they drew from her other arm are both growing bacteria. They still do not know what bacteria it is, it will take a few days for it to grow out. But the antibiotics she is getting "should" help. I am so frustrated right now, because we know a blood infection is not good, and it would most likely mean not being able to get a transplant if an offer came in for lungs. We won't know for sure until we talk to the transplant team, but from previous disucssions, I am almost positive they would decline an offer until her infection clears. So for now, she will continue on the antibiotics, and get daily blood cultures to see if they are fighting the infection. They may end up pulling the PICC line but we dont know for sure yet.