Sunday afternoon (07/24/1e

Well, unfortunately, this weekend has been frustrating and not boring.  Late in the week, they started Rachel on antibiotics b/c something grew out of the sputum and urine cultures.  However, when they repeated the sputum culture, it came back okay, so, they aren't sure whether it was a faulty reading or not.  They still have her on an antibiotic to treat the past urinary tract infection as well as anything else that might have tried to start.

As if that wasn't enough, Rachel has been having a time with nausea due, they believe, to her not being able to handle of all the feeds coming through the feeding tube.  They have switched feeds from a higher concentrate to a lower concentrate and lower the rate at which she was getting it through the tube.  Unfortunately, that didn't really solve the problem so they (at our request) stopped the feeds for two days to give her and her stomach a break.  She hasn't had the nausea and wretching as much since. They have since started her on TPN and calcium chloride drips.  They are going to start her on lipids (fat) sometime this evening and try start her back on her feeds as slow rate as possible with something that is very lightly concentrated.

And then, last evening, she started having arrithymia issues again,  At one point during the evening, her heart rate accelarated to about 222 nearly causing her pacemaker to kick in before she broke the arrityhmia on her own,  Also, her heart rhythm changed for some unknown reason early this morning.  They brought in a representative from Medtronics to interagate the pacemaker.  Still not sure what caused the arriythimia but the pacemaker did what it was suppose to do.

So, we ask that everyone please pray for a boring week, and by boring, we mean that any/all infections will heal up and that she will not have anymore arrithymias or strange heart rhythms and that nothing else heart or health wise shows up.