11.3.17 Infection 6

Poor Aimee is grouchy, tired, and uncomfortable, but she has made progress. Drain is out. Dressing is changed. Wound care plan is discussed. The incision looks good and hopefully the staples will make a big difference. It is not going to be simple, straightforward to heal this lower incision, but we’ll do everything we can to help her. Working out how many weeks of antibiotics she will need to continue and getting the med orders worked out. 

We met with the nutritionist and she is calculating some ideas for adding in oils to Aimee’s food and running it over 22 hours instead of 12. We appreciated that she was sensitive to our preference for using real food rather than adding doucal or other similar products. We still haven’t actually started food yet, but only 1 more step to full hydration amounts of pedialyte. 

It would be ideal to give her a bit more time here. Normally we would at least make sure she could tolerate running a reasonable 30% of food, but I think if we can see her tolerate pedialyte/water, we will call that good enough to take her home. Not ideal, but none of it is. Aimee’s poor body is going to take slow, slow steps to recover to her baseline.