Monday this week was cookie-baking-while-getting-school-work-done day. Gloria decided we all needed hats while we were working, so went digging in the little girls' hat bin and brought us our selections one at a time.
The update on Mira is that the infection has successfully cleared out of her bloodstream (yay!) and her platelet levels continue to slowly rise. Some of the other concerning levels are correspondingly dropping as her overall well-being is improving, so she's generally heading in a very good direction.
After losing one of her IVs last night they talked with us again about putting in a PIC line which gives them more secure access to her bloodstream both for her medication (which has to be intravenous for 14 continuous days, and missing a dose means starting over at day one) and for blood draws. When they talked initially about it, her platelets were still too low to risk it and they were not certain the infection was out of her blood, but with the loss of the one IV (and she's a tough poke), and the good trend on her labs, we decided to do the PIC line this afternoon.
That means that we now have the option of bringing her home. Her pneumonia has really been a non-issue with this hospital stay. Her lung x-rays aren't looking great, but symptomatically she's awesome as far as pneumonia goes. Even with the PIC line already in, we are still unsure of the balance of pros and cons of having her home before she completes her medication. Honestly, one of our biggest concerns is our very capable almost-two-year-old "nurse" who still has a touch of a runny nose and is very confident about things she really knows nothing about, but wants desperately to be involved in. Most of the worst of the nastiness that we've had with nasal junk appears to be mostly gone, but we'd like to get a few more days past that ourselves, and a few more days of steady out of Mira before we consider moving her home!
It's exciting, however, that "home" is an option on the table.
We really hope she's home in time for Christmas!
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