Hospital Update....day 10!

Well.....Mel is still doing her thing!  They have now done an MRI of her lower spine to see if her spinal cord is re-tethered again and that is what is causing the problems that is making her bladder and kidney act up.   At last report from Dr. George, he doesn't see that the spine is the problem.  The Infectious Disease doctor isn't pleased with Mel's progress.  She would expect to see Mel feeling LOTS better, better than she is right now, after 7 days of two IV antibiotics.  She has now asked the Urologist to go look into the "bad" right kidney to see if there is some infection just hanging out in there.  Soooooo, we are headed once again for another procedure this afternoon.  We also had an Echocardiogram done yesterday to see if her high blood pressures have caused any damage to her heart....no word yet from the Cardiologist.  Last night was another interesting one.  I was awaken last night to the awesome sound from the pulse ox machine telling us that her heart rate was in the 40s.  Come to find out, her blood pressure dropped to 80s/40s and heart rate was staying in the 40s.  AWESOME!  One more wrench Mel thought to throw in the mix!  Soooooo.....going home today is OUT.  Now we are working on going home later this weekend!  UUUGGGHHHHH!

Wait....they just came in and added another test!  They are going to do an MRI of her upper spine to see if her spine is tethered up higher!  That one will take an hour to do....wow, what this girl has to go through!  I think we must have set some record for the number of times one patient goes down to radiology in one hospital stay.  More to come once we know more!