Tuesday 2-18-14, 12pm Ally hospital update-

Just wanted to let you know Ally will be in the hospital a few days. Here is the update I did on facebook…

Ally was admitted Monday night to Lutheran General since her cultures came back with a blood infection that MUST be treated with IV antibiotics. For a week, she has had tougher AM breathing treatments with yellow secretions but then fine overall the rest of the day/night. However she began fevers 99-102.3 Friday and Saturday, so we brought her to the ER for all different types of cultures/tests and xrays. Overall, everything has been clear except we got the call about the blood infection and that we needed to admit Ally. Clinically, Ally is actually doing much better with only low grade to no temps and better heartrate. However her secretions/sputum has gotten a little worse/thicker… and she did have a desat to 75 at 3am with tons of mucus and blood. It was only a brief time and “I” helped her recover, but we are re-runing respiratory, blood and stool tests. We will be also be testing blood daily till it comes back negative or we will have to remove Ally’s port. I am hopeful we can fix it with the antibiotics though.

This is Ally’s first hospital stay at Lutheran. We chose to come here so their medical staff can get to know Ally and her unique care before we do spine surgery here in the near future. It’s a little hard working with a new team and hospital, but overall things are going really well with only a couple small bumps we have/are working through. Overall, many of my friends who have medically fragile children or come here were right, Lutheran is REALLY family friendly, possibly less stressful, and definitely easier to get to than going downtown Chicago. We are only on our first full day, but I am very hopeful.

Thanks again to everyone for the prayers, support and well wishes.

Tina and the Krajewski Family