Rough Couple of Days

Zoe has been slowly getting worse rather than better. Her chest xray yesterday shows fluid in her lungs. She is on oxygen and they had to slowly increase it throughout the night. Her blood results are showing that she is having some issues with electrolyte balance despite the fact that she has been on IV fluids the last three days. She stopped peeing yesterday and had to be catheterized but she did start up again this morning on her own. She has lots of diarrhea from the strong antibiotics she is getting.

So all in all, not a good couple of days.

Gavin, Ailsa and I all slept here at the hospital last night because Zoe was not doing very well and they were thinking of transferring her to the critical care unit. Right now the critical care team is in charge of her and making all the decisions but they are hoping she does not have to move to the unit. We hope so too. The CCU is a difficult place to be- Ailsa is not allowed to visit, there is no bed for one of us to stay with Zoe, and it would mean that Zoe is sick enough to be there. So we are hoping to avoid that.

I will try to keep this updated when I get a chance.