Silver lining?

I guess one of the good things about being in the hospital room is I have a little time to write.  The unfortunate thing is I have more to write about.  As we all know by now, Abby doesn't play by the rules. 

Good news first: 

• ~The initial blood culture is negative.  It doesn't mean it won't grow something, but that's good news!
• ~Her fever is down.  It broke during the night and has stayed down today.  Thank God for that. 

I'm not sure/ maybe bad news:

• ~Abby's morning labs were a mess.  Her platelets are very low, and her white count dropped from 4.2 to 1.6 over night.  This could be from a nasty virus, the antibiotics suppressing her immune system or a bad draw.  After discussion between her doctors and infectious disease, they decided the most dangerous thing to do would be to take her off antibiotics (even if they are suppressing the bone marrow) if she should have a line infection, it could be fatal.  The best case would be fluke in the blood draw.  The worst case would be a severely depressed immune system.  Abby would have to stay here on precautions until her counts recovered. 
• ~She's still struggling with the Vancomycin.  She itches and continues to have a rash with it.  She'll get benadryl before the rest of the doses to keep the reactions to a minimum.  That's good and bad because she needs to sleep, but I don't want her up all night because she slept on the benadryl during the day. 

She won't go home tomorrow like I hoped.  If all the cultures are negative they will stop the antibiotics and keep her for 24 hours to be sure she's alright and the fever doesn't come back.  If the white count continues to be low, we'll see what happens.  The Dr. told me to plan for the week and hope for Wednesday, so that's what I'm doing. 

That's it for now.  Just trying to trust God's plan and praying we make it out of here soon.