Sorry it's been so long since the last post. Started one over a week ago, but never got back to it. Odd how we feel we're in a never-ending process but then the time passes so quickly.
We left the hospital post-surgery on Saturday, the 30th. Just in time for Halloween. Then it was back in on Monday for our last "scheduled" hospital stay. Definitely a milestone! Olivia got the last dose of one of the chemo medicines, which was the one that required an overnight stay. From now on, she will get all her treatments outpatient! Yea!
Olivia is now taking some pretty strong antibiotics -- IV for 4 weeks 3x per day (my honorary nursing degree is in the mail), then by mouth for about a year. The culture taken from the surgery showed some bacteria but nothing grew out of it. They treat it as infection because of the allograft. The bacteria can attach to it and infection could potentially grow much later. Makes you wonder what other little surprises could be in store.
We are home now on the two-week break, hopefully back to an uneventful routine.
YAY ANOTHER POST!!!! I hope you all have a not bad uneventful, 2 week break! wow taking medicine by mouth for about a year!!! thats a loooooong time. Its good that nothing grew out of the bacteria!!!
ReplyDeleteoh wow that's great!!!! I love your halloween costume!!!!!!! I miss you!
ReplyDeleteAmanda
Good to hear this development. Take care!
ReplyDeleteDS
Sounds like you are all hanging in there and doing very well. Keep it up. I hope there are no more surprises for you.
ReplyDeleteSueAnne & Roy