Salmonella

Well we found out the other day lilia has salmonella. They are still waiting on the type before they treat though. Apprently some are more severe then others. Usually they dont even treat it, jsut keep the child hydrated till its gone, but becuase shes immune compermised its a bit different. She also has pnemonia, but we beleive we got it really early..she doenst even need O2..but she is on antibitocs for it.
She blew her IV yesterday, her poor little hand was so swollen. The nurses on the floor dindt see anything so they got the team from the ICU to come up and do it. She tried 3 times to get it and couldnt. So they got 3 doctors to try and still no luck...her veins are pretty much no good now since they poked her way too many times. They were going to have to put a central line in, becuase shes NPO (no food) and had to have an iv becuase of this. Whcih they would of done is ICU..howver the ICU doctor who would of done it wanted to come up and try and finally after a few tries he got a line in! So no central line..which is great.

So back to why shes NPO after we had tried to get her feeds back up to normal. Me and brant noticed that her tummy seemed bigger, and told them. they didnt really think anything of it, said it looked fine. but decided to do an x ray mostly to amuse us I think. However the X ray came back that she has a lot of gas pockets in her intestines..so much that they are worried shes going to perfierate a bowel. So they quickly stopped all food, and are venting the gas out through the G tube. However its so much that surgery is checking on her every day, they are afradi she will rupture her colon and need surgery asap.

they are taking x rays every 12 hours to make sure shes improving..and so far she is. So we are really hoping that she will improve enough and not need suregery. however she will be in hospital untill all this is better..which could be quite a while.(keep your fingers crossed that she gets better fast so she can come home soon)

Also shes lost a lot of weight...she was 27 lbs before she got sick..now only 2 weeks later shes 22 lbs.