In the step down unit – 5300 wing
We arrived in 5300 step down area, Emily is trying to rest. She has been vomiting alot, and her head is hurting. They have her on morphine every 2 hours and we are trying to keep tylenol down, but not working yet. She has a fever, and they are deciding what she needs most to run through her lines because she is behind on meds that we usually do at night and in the afternoon. We know the staff infection was the worst of the two types , which I didn’t know there were different types. That was told to us prior to surgery by a fellow Dr. on 5100. After surgery we talked with the surgeron, he said the staff infection was in the shunt and surrounding tissues. He removed the VP shunt and tissue areas around shunt on both sides that had been infected. Part of the shunt tubing was actually exposed all along, I thought It was part of the scab, that was healing, because it was not a dark scab that it once was . It was an area light in color like you see when healing takes place longterm. I told him it has been like that for a long time. I was surprised no one has detected this, and the surgeon was too. I know they have put high dose antibiotics in the local area where the VP shunt was removed as well as antibiotics through her lines. The temporary tubing had to be placed in a different location toward the front of the brain, because they could not use the same site as before to run the tubing because of infection in local site and surrounding tissue areas. If they put another perm shunt in it will have to be placed on the top/front part of the brain. Thank you to everyone for keeping us in your prayers.
Love, Emily, Dawn and Eddie
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