So, tomorrow will mark a week since we have been in the hospital, we actually have not been here this long since Janessa was in the NICU! Right now we are at a stand point with the yeast still lingering in Janessa's central line, luckily for us her actual blood stream is clear of yeast, and her echo-cardiogram looked great, but it seems like this yeast just doesn't want to budge from her central line, it is such a sticky bug, and so hard to get rid of that I think the only solution will be to pull the line, and place a new one in. I honestly would hate to see this line go, as most TPN users would agree one only has so much access space for lines, and losing lines is something we don't look forward to, but the yeast just won't budge even with the anti fungal locks.
From my understanding from infectious disease is that if the locks remain in the line for 8 hours a day without TPN, fluids, medicines, etc running through there is a 70% success rate they will work, but for Janessa for some unknown reason hers are only being places for 6 which drops it to a 50% rate(tons of miscommunication here), almost like flipping a coin, unfortunately I think we landed on the wrong side of the coin, and will have to go through with surgery!
Janessa herself is doing wonderful, but you can tell she misses home, and doesn't want to be here anymore. The good news with her, she ate a decent sized meal today and never vomited, became distended(big hard tummy), or grouchy, it seems like she moved the majority of it through her bowels, hopefully it'll remain this way!!
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