Unfortunately......

Reagan had to be readmitted last night (Thurs.) to Dell Children's in Austin.  Because she had the positive blood culture from Sunday that grew salmonella (go figure on that one) the Infectious Disease docs felt it better to treat it as real given the fact that Reagan is such a high risk patient and is immune compromised.  Although she has no outward signs of being sick, if the culture were real they would not want the salmonella to invent her blood clot or her "artificial" parts in her heart or nothing else, to say the least.  They are being safe rather than sorry because if she did start getting "sick" from the salmonella in the blood it would not be good.  Hopefully, she will only need 5 days of antibiotics given her clinical healthiness.  Wednesday when I took her into the pediatrician and got her a rocephin shot counts as Day 1 so it looks like Sunday could be her last day for the i.v. antibiotic (with all fingers crossed that no other cultures come back positive).  As of now, the culture from Monday is still negative and the ones from Wed. are still pending.  Also, please pray her i.v. holds until Sunday because it is only half way in but is flushing o.k. for now so we're holding onto what we've got with positive thoughts.  She also continues to get her twice a day lovenox shots while in the hospital.  At least, I get a break from giving them to her for a short while and someone else gets to be the bad guy.  Although she is in the hospital for now she seems perfectly healthy and happy so I actually drove back to Temple this morning to make a doctor's appt. for myself that had already been rescheduled once from our hospitalization earlier this week.  My mom, Mimi, is staying with her now and they are hanging out, playing, eating and watching movies.  I pray she stays this way through completion of the antibiotics and we don't 'pick up' anything else while in the hospital.
Last night after admitting, we had some special visitors to see us.  SFC Mahannah's wife, Nadia & 2 kids came by to visit and brought Reagan a get well gift from "all of Daddy's friends".  Nadia's husband and Rod work together in the same unit but we have never met.  Thank you Nadia for taking the time to come by.  It was very nice meeting you and we appreciate your sweet spirit!
Thanks again to Mimi, PawPaw, Aunt Kay & Marisa Conley for helping me with Nolan so far.  I'm trying to avoid Nolan having to spend time in the hospital as it's not fair for him. & since Ronald McDonald doesn't have a place to retreat from the hospital we are all taking turns spending the nights with Reagan and driving back & forth to Temple.  As long as Reagan remains stable, I am going to spend the evening at home with Nolan, maybe have a mommy/son date night tonight and then take MiMi and PawPaw's place at the hospital tomorrow through discharge.  Thank you, thank you sooo much for all your help!!