A couple of weeks ago Kaelyn started having really high fevers, 104 degrees. I took her in to the hospital and they ran some blood cultures. The result was that her port-a-cath was infected with staff and strep bacteria. It was not responding well to the antibiotics so in she went to the OR to have her port removed. This is not something that we wanted, but it had to go. This was the only way to clear up the infection. The surgeon said that they removed about 8 cc's of puss, which is almost two teaspoons full. They were pretty surprised that it was so infected. Because of this they could not close her wound. We need all of that infection to come out. We stayed in the hospital for about 8 days and went home with a PICC line (a peripherally inserted central catheter) in her arm so we could continue the IV antibiotics at home for another 10 days. She also came home with an open would were her port was removed. We have to change the dressing and repack it once a day with antimicrobial packing. It is starting to heal and look better. She still is not feeling well though. She is complaining of pain constantly. So I have a call into the docs to see if we can help resolve or atleast find out what is going on. She needs some relief...
On a more happy note! Kaelyn had her 3rd birthday on Thursday! It was very exciting. She had a barbie princess cake and all of her grandparents and many of her other family here! She was so excited about the scooter she got that she did not want to come back inside to blow our her candles and have cake and ice cream! It was so cute!
Love to all,
Angie
