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Abby and I came home Friday afternoon. I'm not sure how she felt, but I was exhausted. Her line grew coag negative staph. It's a fairly common line infection, especially in the hospital. The medicine they were treating her with (zyvox) was one they didn't want to send her home on, but the bug was resistant to everything else, except vancomycin and zyvox.

Zyvox suppresses bone marrow and knocks out platelets. Abby had a pretty significant drop in her platelet count before we left yesterday, so they'll draw again Monday, and every three days to be sure she doesn't need a transfusion. Besides that, she should do okay. It can, and seems to be raising her heart rate, which isn't a bad thing for her. It was 82 today, which is pretty good, considering she hangs in the 40s lately.

I'm not sure how she is doing, although in a few words, not well. I'll write more about that later. We are all heavy hearted as we hold our sweet girl through it all. Please keep her in your prayers.



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