[gshase]

My very complex daughter, Elissa Hase, received a pint of blood yesterday. The doctors believe that it is from bone marrow not replenishing itself from her being so sick. They are going to do a CT of her stomach and another CT of her head again for possible bleeding too.

They are changing antibiotics once again to a new one she has not tried to fight her resistant Pseudomonas.

Good news is that she has been cleared of CDEF infection for her intestines.

She is is still on BiPAP at night and oxygen. White cell count is 49,000 which is overly high. She is still fighting infections.

GOOD NEWS. .... SHE IS NOT GROWING ANYMORE. .. MRSA, Aspergillus, MAC, Acinetobacter, ONLY GROWING resistant strains of Pseudomonas.

Another day ....... another week !
Day 45


That was 2 days ago ..... Today White cell count 30k and no fever for 24 hours now. At least 21 more days in the hospital. Tonight I got a pic of her walking the halls looking for some food. Big smile here.


Now from Elissa....Dignity is hard to define until you lose every last trace of it.
1 iv in each arm, Bed pan, Bed side toilet chair, Maturity Disposable Underwear.

Her team of Doctors are at least talking of eventually sending her home.