February 23, 2006

Its my 2nd day back at work and the hospital called. On the 21st Emily was moved into an isolation room because she had tested postive Pseudomonas Aeruginosa (PA) in her urine. Since she tested positive for PA they wanted to do a bronchoscopy to see if she had developed it in her lungs. Her pulmonologist did the bronchoscopy - they had to give her a bit of moprphine because she did not want to go to sleep with the milder meds. She's a fiesty little girl. The isolation pod is often called the "dirty" pod but we actually liked Emily having her own room - maybe they were keeping her germs from others, but it also meant everyone else's germs were kept away from her.