Two Weeks

As of this morning Bradlee has been in the hospital two weeks. Everyone is asking why she has been in so long and I guess its because we have been going very conservatively.

Bradlee was admitted to the hospital with an already ruptured appendix and the CT scan showed a few pockets of infection. It wasn't spread out everywhere, it had contained itself in a few places. A drain was placed into the biggest pocket in the hopes that the smaller pockets were all connected to it or that the antibiotics would reduce the small infections and surgery would be avoided.

Unfortunatly that didn't happen. Although the large pocket drained well and the smaller ones were smaller they weren't going away so the doctor decided to operate and clean up the rest of the infection. That happened Friday afternoon and now Bradlee is just in recovery mode. She had been feeling pretty good before the surgery and had been almost pain free for several days so its is annoying to be back almost to square one as far as pain is concerned. But it is definately no where near as bad as when she was admitted. We played cards for a while to day and she is able to get out of bed a bit.

We are hoping that a few more days will see her recovered enough to come home. We appreciate everyone's concern and help. Luckily Kevin has been able to stay home from work so he has the child care duties, while I spend most of my day at the hospital with Bradlee.
--Debbie