So I'm not sure what's going on with the Caringbridge site, but I just can't seem to update there. Look for updates on this blog from now on, but feel free to leave messages at either place.



After I updated last week, I got a phone call from Ostlie's office saying that Ellie's swab for VRE came up positive again. Then she was swabbed again on Tuesday and that one came back negative. So, we will keep on hoping for 2 more negative swabs.



Monday of this week I took Ellie in to the Ear, Nose and Throat doctor. He looked at her ears through a microscope and said she didn't have any wax buildup (yeah--no need for scrapping it out). He also said that it did not look like their was any infection. As for the failed hearing tests, he has decided to wait and do another in 3 months. He said that Ellie's ear canals are so tiny that they are the same sized as the tubes he would put in and that tubes would be impossible to maintain right now. Since she does not have any noticable hearing problems and has just gone through so many surgeries, we are going to wait for her canals to get bigger and recheck them. Good news for us since we really didn't want her to go through anymore at this point.



Tuesday we had our weekly pediatric appointment for lab swabs and I really wanted Dr. Cotter to take a look at Ellie's j-tube site. It had started to look red and yucky and she was pretty angry when I cleaned it. We also had that big snow coming in and I didn't want her to wind up with a big infection and not be able to get anywhere. Wouldn't it figure that we got a bunch of sleet out here that morning. Thankfully Dave came home to take us to the doctor. We barely made it up the hill to 62nd street. We got to the pediatrician's office fine and he took a swab of it to get cultured. We got the results yesterday...another staph infection. At least it's not MRSA this time. So we will be off to the pharmacy to pick up an antibiotic today.

Outside of that, all is well. The girls and Dave really enjoyed playing in the 9/10 inches of snow we got out here on Wednesday. We are also so thankful to have a wonderful neighbor who came out on his four wheeler and plowed our drive. Of course, even with a plowed drive, neither one of us can get the cars up the drive...so I am getting lots of exercise hauling the girls up and down the drive. Hopefully it will melt soon!