2008 August « Aria MacDonald

Nothing much has changed overnight.  Currently Aria is 37.2 which is a great temp.  Although it is hard to get excited because this mystery illness cause her to go from 36.8 to 40.8 and back again with a 24 hour period.
Her blood sugar is doing crazy things and we are nervous.  It is going from [...]

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 Day seven of 40+ fevers continue and no answers still.
 We are pretty drained at the moment not knowing what is going on. The Dr’s from various departments are consulted and theories are tested to no avail. We’d love one of them to tell us not to worry [...]

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Day 6 and Aria is still really sick.  She had a blood transfusion today and we hope this might perk her up a bit.  It is so hard, breaks our hearts to see her sick for so [...]

Aria isn’t better
In fact she is probably worst than yesterday.  Her temp is still 40 degrees, the fourth night in a row. 
Honestly I just don’t know what to think.   Ok so it isn’t a line infection or a virus and the ABX don’t seem to be working.  At this rate I think we [...]

Today wasn’t quite as bad as yesterday.  As least Aria was sitting up and kind of playing a bit.  Her temp is still up but this afternoon took a much welcomed dip to 37.1
It isn’t a line infection and it is looking like a virus or some chest infection kind of a thing.
We [...]

These are two words that pretty much sum up today.  Poor Aria.  She was hot and flat all day and it is really sad to see.  She perked up briefly when me and Ashie arrived this morning but that was it.
 Her blood culture is still clear which would seem to point to a clear line.  [...]

Sad.  Last night Aria’s temp got up to 40 degrees overnight.  That is pretty bad.  She had been having little temps for a couple of days.  But 40 is way to high so we took her in first thing this morning.
As it turns out she has bronchitis and we are still waiting to [...]

Australasian Drilling had their annual conference this weekend in Auckland.  On Saturday night they had a charity dinner and auction to raise money for KIDS Foundation who kindly nominated Aria to receive the proceeds raised on the night.
So I got a call from the GM of KIDS yesterday on Hamish’s birthday while some of our friends and [...]

Our big three month anniversary of Aria being out of hospital that is!

You see-  I am changing
Yesterday we had a great day at Waiheke with Rebecca’s parents.  Aria had such a great time and the experience was very positive.  She went on a boat and in the car and walked along the [...]

 I am obsessed with this darn ticker !!
It sits on my google home page so I see it everyday and I keep watching for it to read 3 months!
It is crazy the amount of time I spend thinking about the fact Aria isn’t in hospital and wondering when we will be there next?  [...]