Hang In There

At 4PM I spoke with Cindy, our newest nurse. She had a great deal of information for me.

Amacker acquired a staph-infection. Basically some bacteria that normally exists on our skin got insider her. It’s completely treatable, and they are giving her a course of strong antibiotics as we speak, but it takes a few days to get rid of the little bugger. Unfortunately, they can’t do the surgery to repair her arm until they get rid of the staph infection, and they can’t begin the process to wean her from the breathing machine until they fix her arm.

The long and the short of it is that they hope to work on her arm Monday or Tuesday. After that they’ll start trying to wean her from the ventilator. It could be a difficult and lengthy process to do that. It seems the longer one is on a machine like that, the harder it is to give it up. To be clear, though, the care providers are very confident she will achieve independence from the ventilator without too much difficulty. We just need to hang tight.

Everything else is progressing nicely. Amacker seems to be mostly comfortable, and animated at times.

I keep forgetting to mention it, but Amacker's hair is pulled straight up on her head, so that when you walk in you see a pink and blonde whale spout sticking straight up from her head. It's very cute... very Amacker.