Hannah's Line Was Infected

It didn't take long for the infection to show up on Hannah's central line once they removed it from Hannah's body. Tonight they took blood cultures from her arm & now we are waiting to see if the infection spread to her blood stream. In the meantime, she is being treated as if she has sepsis until we know any different.

It is a REALLY good thing we pushed to just take the line out today .. if not, we'd probably be on our way to Kaiser Los Angeles for a late night surgery.

When she came out of surgery her temp was 106.1 ... gosh, I just love that she goes so high with her temperature: NOT!!!!

She seems much better this evening & her temp right now is in the 102's ... so that is a huge improvement.

Lord willing, her blood cultures from her arm will come back negative & she will get discharged by this weekend. We have BIG plans to meet Lily's precious foster sister from China, Meredith.

Hannah's teacher from school came to see her ... how did we ever win the lottery with this teacher? (Mark, stop laughing!) At that point in the evening we were just coming back from surgery. Hannah wasn't really up for visiting but it was great to have Miss D here with us & bring her spirit of joy to our room ... thanks Miss D, you are wonderful!!

I am really exhausted -- emotionally & physically. I never thought we'd be here this week but I just keep saying to myself "OK, Lord, You know & I trust you."

I probably won't update the blog tomorrow unless there is news to report. Just assume all is fine & we are staying happy & occupied in a room with no windows & no Fox News. :-)!

All God's best --