Kennedy update - Saturday morning

Kennedy had a good night, her fever broke again and she slept well except for when her nurse had to come and turn her. She's a trooper though and always goes right back to sleep. They are doing a good job of keeping her oral pain meds coming ahead of the pain, so I think that contributed to her restful night.

They came in this morning and took the drain out of her head. Now she has 2 more days of IV antibiotics and then she can switch to oral and get those IVs OUT! They are going to do blood and urine cultures today to make sure her fever is not due to infection starting somewhere. I did talk them into bagging her instead of doing a catheter for her urine but if the sample from the bag shows infection they'll have to cath her. She'll be thrilled, I'm sure.

PT should be by in awhile. The doctors really want her up on her feet today. I told them that may be a little unrealistic being that she couldn't even sit unassisted yesterday. We'll take it one day at a time. I don't want them to push her too hard.

Anyway, right now, Kennedy is in bed watching Signing Time and eating apples grapes. Please pray for a pain free day; and pray that her fever doesn't climb again today, and for clear cultures!