Dorothy's asleep and I should be too, but I wanted to post a brief update on Elizabeth's status.
First off, she's not home yet. We'd thought she might come home today, but her temp went over 101 last night, so they wanted to keep her one more night to monitor her. For whatever reason, they decided not to do the CT scan today, but wait instead to see if her temp went over 101 again. It didn't (highest was about 100.5), but she did get some of the cramping that had been gone for a few days.
Basically, if she were a bit sicker, they'd let her come home. That's because if she had a cough or runny nose or something, they could easily chalk the temperature up to the flu or some common illness and let her go. But because her temp hit 104 the other day, and keeps fluctuating up and down, but she's not really showing any other symptoms (except the neck and shoulder aches when her temperature is elevated), they're perplexed.
We're all hoping that her temperature will come down and stay down in the 98-99 range, and that the aches will go away, and they'll let her come home Sunday. But if it goes up again tonight (the temperature spiking has mostly occurred at night) over 101, then she'll go in for a CT scan Sunday, and probably stay in the hospital until Monday, at least. Here's to hoping she gets better ASAP...
BTW, we were all at the hospital from around 10 this morning until 7:30 or so this evening, so Elizabeth got lots of Dorothy snuggles in. But now it's just me and Dorothy at home, for the 3rd night in a row!
Posted by Tom Nugent at July 17, 2004 10:27 PM