Back in the PICU again

Well, we have had a little set back. Nora wasn't feeling so hot yesterday and today she was really not right. Andy and I called the doctor and took her into the hospital. After a couple hours in the ER and some scans and tests, she was back up in the PICU getting ready to have another drain put in her head between her brain and skull. The drain is working now and some fluid that was building up around her head has been removed. Tests of the fluid have shown that she has and infection in the cerebral spinal fluid. She has been getting antibiotics and has been running a little bit of a fever so has been taking some Tylenol.

Tomorrow she will have another CT scan so we can get a better idea of what parts of her brain are inflamed from the infection. Other than that, I think she will just get dosed with these antibiotics for a while until the infection is gone. I suppose if the infection is messing with her ability to properly drain the ventricles, we may be looking at some sort of shunt surgery? Who knows. The neurosurgeon will be back in tomorrow and may have some more to say after the CT tomorrow.

In any event, this will likely be a much longer stay at the hospital than last week. The doctor in the PICU has told us to expect about a 3 week stay. Like old times!

Oh yeah, today is my 33rd birthday. Not quite the party I planned on.