Going Home!!!!!

The doctor came in this morning and said they are going to send us home today. I guess I was misunderstanding them when I thought they were going to take the IV,PICC Line out. They were actually only talking about stopping the fluid intake in it. We will actually be going home with the PICC line because she still needs the antibiotics every 6 hours until Friday. So, they'll be setting up a home health nurse to come help with that.

They'll be giving her the last dose from here around 1pm and then getting us home after that. Yeah!

Also, they came in to take her blood again this morning and said that her white blood cell count was still around 10,000. That's the same as its been for a couple days now. I was afraid that meant they'd make us stay longer, but I guess they are OK with us going home anyway. They said that when we came to the hospital the count was at 14,000, which meant her body was full of infection. The normal is between 5,000 and 10,000 so they'd like to see hers a bit lower. We have to come back on Friday when the antibiotics are done and they'll check it again.

When they came to draw the blood, the nurse ask me whether I thought she should poke Kylee's finger or use a needle in her arm. I was thinking, "I don't know, just do it, don't ask me." The last couple times, they poked her finger. Doing it this way, they have to squeeze the blood out of her finger to fill the tubes, so it takes longer. We decided to try the needle since it's faster, but the nurse also mentioned that if the veins don't cooperate then she'd end up getting poked more than once. She then ask me which arm I thought would be best. I held out mine and said "Just do mine!" She laughed and said "That would be easier for all of us, wouldn't it?"

Luckily, it only took the one poke and they were done.

12:00 pm update - Well, I guess I had not misunderstood after all. They were going to take out the PICC, but since her white blood cell count was still high, they decided she still needed antibiotics for longer.

I am annoyed though because now they just came back to draw blood, again! This time they poked her finger. Then they came in and said they were going to flush her PICC line so that they could draw from it later. I didn't understand why they didn't just do that 4 days ago and that would have saved her getting poked everyday. Or at least 10 min ago which would saved this last poke. I expressed this to the nurse and he was clearly irritated with it as well. He tried to draw from the line and it worked fine anyway. So they could have been drawing from it without even flushing it. He appologized several times for the other nurses who had not tried this before.