Our Little Trooper

This has been an interesting ride for us. We arrived on Monday at 3:00 p.m., thanks Nonnie for taking off and coming for help and support, by Dr. Ortenburg’s orders. After a terrible afternoon, trying to get an IV in to get the antibiotics going, we had no luck. Dr. Ortenburg decided Tuesday morning to go ahead and put Averi to sleep and find a central line so that the IV line would not blow being that the antibiotics that she is on are so strong. We went down to “surgery” around 10:30 am, after the procedure Dr. Ortenburg talked with Nonnie and me and decided to call in an Infection Specialist. Once we were able to see Averi, we were told that she was stuck three more times, (remember the night before no luck after eight times of trying to get an IV) two central lines one on each side of her chest, blew out! Our little trooper has bruises all over her body. After seeing the Infection Specialist, Brad and I have to make a huge decision on what to do about Averi receiving her antibiotic either by mouth or thru the central line at home. There are a large amount of side effects on either decision that we make. The oral antibiotic that Averi would receive is Levofloxacin. To be totally honest, I really don’t know which one I would rather see her on. It’s a very hard decision for us to make.
Averi had a UTI culture ran this morning, and plans are to wait and see what they show. We will be seeing the doctors this afternoon. I will try my hardest to update once we make a decision and after we talk with the doctors.