"I'll let them know."

Kate has an ANC! Yay! It's only 23, but it's exciting that she is building one! We're finally on our way up, and soon to be out of the hospital Yay! We are excited to see a positive change in her counts!

She had a fever the other night, and unfortunately her blood cultures came back positive for another bacteria in her line. In my last post I explained the gram negative rod wrong. Kate doesn't have gram negative rod and e-coli... e-coli is the gram negative rod. The other bacteria she just tested positive for is gram positive cocci... and we don't know what exactly the bacteria is yet. Kate is now on three major antibiotics and we hope that these antibiotics will kill the bacteria so we can leave her hickman in for the rest of her treatment. If her cultures continue to come back positive then we will probably have to take her line out early. Although we can't wait to have the hickman out, we don't want to take it out early because she will have to get iv's to do labs and her future tests.

I have a funny story about Dr. Todd Devermann! He's so funny. He is, obviously, very concerned about Katelyn, and very in tune with her treatment. He does tons of research all the time on the different drugs she's getting and procedures she's having. He understands what is going on at all times and is very adament when he isn't comfortable with something. The nurses and doctors are often times impressed with his knowledge, and sometimes annoyed by it. He often corrects things and changes things to the way he feels is best for Kate. He asked the doctor today if we could do the blood cultures in the early morning when labs are drawn, instead of entering her lines later in the day. (It's best to enter the lines as little as possible in order to reduce the chances of infection.) Our doctor agreed that that was a good idea, and as she was walking out the door to write the order & let the nurses know, Dr. Devermann says "I'll let them know". The doctor laughed and so did I. Once she left I laughed some more & told him that he might want to let the doctor do her job... he honestly didn't realize that he was doing her job. After he thought about it, he started lauging and said that he should have waited to let her say that. That is just a small example of the way Todd works while we're here. It's pretty funny that he goes so far to make every decision in Kate's care! What they say is true, a parent knows his child best. In this case, Todd and I know Kate and her care best. Although, I tend to let the doctors and nurses do their jobs!

Love to all! Thank You for the continues prayers and support! It's looking like we will be out of here in time to participate at the Celebration of Champions! I'm really looking forward to it!