Email update from Stephanie:
Zoey was doing fabulous until Thursday night, at which point she developed
a fever and pain in her abdomen. She may have developed an infection, but at this point they are choosing to monitor her instead of giving her extra antibiotics on top of what she already has. The fever comes and goes and fortunately the pain is not severe anymore, but she is restless and uncomfortable and has a hard time getting into a deep sleep. Yesterday she spent the day watching videos/tv and calm as long as I was holding her hand.
Orthopedics wanted to take her out of traction on May10th, pending the results of an upcoming xray, but urology doesn’t want her out of traction for a couple weeks after that likely as her bladder incision hasn’t healed enough yet. While of course it would be nice to get her out of traction, I am relieved to hear they feel that way as last time we had the surgery as soon as they took her out of traction, the incision
opened up. So it looks like we are indeed headed for the 5-6 weeks expected in hospital.
2nd Email a few hours later:
After I sent out the last update, Zoey got worse and started vomiting several times and couldn’t keep her medicine down so they decided to put her back on an iv so they could change the antibiotic and also give her fluids. Late afternoon she started to improve and had a bit to eat and was in better spirits again, giving us a few smiles. Hopefully the worst is over. Greg is staying with her again tonight to give me a break from the past week (what a great husband!).
Thanks for reading!
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