Biopsy Day

9:02 p.m.
We're in our room on the 6th floor. Her W(hite)B(lood)C(cell count) is a whole whoppin' 1.5 (very low - hard to fight off infection) so she's in a private room. Fever is still up around 103, but she's munching on chips and watching TV. She just looks rough, though. She did have a dark BM so that's a bit concerning. They'll be checking her hemoglobin soon, along with running blood cultures on her P(eripherally)I(nserted)C(entral)C(atheter) line, checking L(iver)F(unction)T(est)'s and starting her on vancomycin and zosyn (IV antibiotics). Is this the reappearance of the (suspected) cholangitis? More updates to come...

6:38 p.m.
So...Shelby and I took a snooze for a little over an hour and she woke up with a temp of 102.5. And her hemoglobin has dropped some. Both not good. The IR doc came in to see her and said that she'll be admitted for the night. What's going on?!?!?! I'll update when I know more.

Shelby in recovery inhaling a popsicle

2:15 p.m.
We are in recovery. All went well. It was just over 2 hours that she was back there. The doc took 8 biopies! She's pretty sore. We're just trying to keep her content, thus I must hand over the computer....later.



11:00 a.m.
They gave her the white stuff in her IV and off she went. That was about 15 minutes ago. Here are some pictures of her waiting. Really she was very relaxed. She only got upset when she knew that it was time to go to sleep and that happened so fast. We were told by the IR doc to not worry if we don't see him for 2 hours. He wants to take 3-4 samples. He said that he is really stumped, like Dr. Superina is, on what this is. We were crushed to find out that we were told inaccurately that we would have results today. There might be some preliminary results...maybe. We just pray that all goes well during her procedure. Scott and I are stuffing in McDonald's...time to finish eating.