Quick Hospital Update

Gracie is at Wolfson Children's in Jax. I was there last night to see her and she looked fantastic. She was happy and playing, and wanted nothing more than to get on the shiny colorful floor and play, but no no no... No floors in the hospital. They have a big oval shaped crib with a big clear, tinted plastic "hood" over it. She loves to pull herself up and cruise around it (she even completely let go once). She also loves to bang on the plastic hood. :)

It has been a couple of months since I've seen her and she looks so much better. First off, she has a full layer of hair on her head. It's short, but dark. Also, one of the anti-rejection meds she takes makes her furry all over. She has a nice layer of fur on her back and shoulders... very cute. I wish I had taken anti-rejection meds when I was in high school and college. I would've dated a lot more (bu-dum-ching). Not sure how namy of you remember what a monchichi is, but she looks eerily like a monchichi.





On to medical stuff. While still not 100% sure, it sounds like the positive culture was for a skin staph infection. I'm no doctor, but it sounds a little odd that a skin infection would show up in a blood culture, especially when Gracie has no open wounds or anything. Our current best guess is that the sample the collected was contaminated between the time they drew blood and the time they started the culture. They took two additional samples to see if anything shows up.

Regardless, giver her weakened immune system, the safe call was to admit Gracie and fill her up with powerful anti-biotics. She'll be in the hospital for a couple more days until they can rule out the infection.

Thanks for checking in.