Gianni Gheno: More party.... still no streamers!

Sunday, July 13, 2008

More party.... still no streamers!

The GI thing ended up being some nasty bug named Clostridium difficile (C Diff) - treatable with more antibiotics. The antibiotic of choice is named Flagyl; funny to me, because it sounds so similar to flatulence (a real symptom too) . . . I guess you had to be here, or perhaps, had no consistent sleep for many, many days . . . So she gets this one every six hours, four times a day for two weeks (thank goodness for the NG). This infection does not qualify, however, for an "excluding event" and cycle 8 is On. We will start, with the "regular" routine (LP on Wednesday, admit to PEC Thursday - Saturday) next week.

Last Wednesday Gianni was ill during the night (emesis) and she 'lost' her NG tube - she has clinic on Thursdays so I just let her go commando for the rest of that night and the following morning. Although we love the NG (route for all her nourishment, fluid, meds . . . ), she seemed so footloose and fancy free without it. I could not stop kissing her bare little check! Alas, the nurses at LPCH did a great job, and the NG is back doing its thing.

Thursday's clinic netted some really great numbers (very high ANC) so the monthly pre-round cabin trip was on! We've really gotten the 2-day turn around down to a science. We left very early Saturday morning - got to the cabin in time for breakfast. Lots of great cabin stuff.