Elizabeth is still in the hospital. The ultrasound they did on Friday indicated that there was some fluid "above" her uterus, and while it didn't appear to be a problem, it was the only abnormal thing the doctors could find to potentially explain Elizabeth's "illness." Her temperature has still been cycling up and down, although the peaks have been lower -- they haven't broken 101 in two nights.
The doctors have said that if Elizabeth simply had a runny nose, or cough, or some sort of symptom that could be connected to the fever, then they'd release her because they'd know what was going on. But since they can't find other symptoms on her, they're concerned about what's happening and don't want to release her from the hospital. I mentioned to Elizabeth that I had what appeared to be a few spider bites that have been really annoying the last few days. She said she wished she had some spider bites, because then maybe the doctors would use that as the explanation and let her out of the hospital!
Some cramping returned yesterday; that, combined with the temperatures, made the doctors decide to do a CT scan today of the fluids above the uterus. They didn't see anything unusual about the fluid area, so I'm guessing they won't aspirate it. Oh, and I almost forgot: In order to do the CT scan, they had to give her a contrast agent which is incompatible with breastfeeding, so she has to pump and dump milk for the next 24 hours, which means we'll be burning through the frozen stash of milk.
As I have for the last few days, I'm hoping that Elizabeth will be able to come home tomorrow. Luckily, my Mom offered to come out to help us out, and she arrived this morning. So now I'll have help with Dorothy, and keeping on top of all the crap that needs to get done around the house (not to mention maybe getting a bit of my own work done).
Posted by Tom Nugent at July 18, 2004 10:21 PM