We're free!!!

We are on our way home!!! Not much change other than that since last post.

We will be doing IV Meds twice a day. They run for 2 hours each day.

Home health will come do dressing changes on the line and do blood draws to monitor the amount of medicine in her blood stream as well as keeping an eye on her kidney (she only has 1).

We are to clean the ear 3 times a day and do antibiotic drops for 7 days. We obviously have to treat the infection but the moisture this forces us to put inside is not good for healing from an implant perspective. We also have to push on the area behind her ear several times a day to try and prevent blood from collecting there again. We have to watch that for any change in size.

She will also be taking an additional antibiotic by mouth that is often given to those with a foreign body inside their body. Her foreign body being her implant.

She has been taking a probiotic since they began the Meds and will continue to for her digestive system.

The orders were written for 4 weeks of IV treatment. It may be longer but that is the current plan.

The infectious disease Dr said no school until picc is out. We have already begun working with the school on this and hopefully tomorrow will have a plan in place.

What a week! What a month! However, despite the fact we have a long way to go, she is better and for that we are very thankful!!! It will be wonderful for all 6 Halls to be under one roof tonight! AND in a REAL bed!!!

As long as there are no changes with her we see both docs next Thursday.

A few pics from the last couple of days and of our home for the last week.