Well, I'm writing this post from our old stomping grounds . . . a hospital room at University Hospital. Four rooms down from the one we left last Thursday.
Needless to say, Mom's doctor's appointment didn't go as we'd hoped. Her white blood cell count was elevated, which is indicative of infection. And you've already heard about everything else going on. Basically, she's in worse shape than she was when she left the hospital four days ago. Dr. Martin is concerned that Mom might have an infection of her surgical site or sepsis (infection in her blood). Because of this, Mom is back in the hospital for 23 hours of fluids, more labs, and a CT scan. At least we hope it's just 23 hours. Mom's got fluids going now and is actually going to be taken down for her CT scan soon (yes, in the middle of the night).
We're bummed that we won't be heading back to Memphis tomorrow as we'd planned. We're in desperate need of the awesome support system that awaits us at home. However, I think we're both a little relieved to be right where we are tonight. The staff on this unit has become the closest thing to family that we've got here in Louisville, and it just so happened that room on "our" unit opened up right when we needed it to. Sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows your name. :) We returned to lots of familiar faces and our favorite night nurse. Trish even had a piece of mail waiting on her.
Please be praying that Dr. M and his team will be able to quickly get to the bottom of what's making Mom so sick. Pray that God will show them how to fix it. Pray for healing from infection, cancer, and all things evil that are attacking my mom's body and spirit. Pray for God to steal the show here at U of L.
Mom's appointment was at 1:45 this afternoon and it was around 8pm before she got in a hospital room. It was around 11pm before I got back to the hospital with our stuff, and I'm now blogging at 3:08am. It's been a long day. And I'm tired.
Goodnight.
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