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Pneumonia - Dang

7/15/2017

 
Madison was feeling rotten all week, and it worsened Thursday afternoon. Her chest, her side, and back hurt. She had a temperature too, 101.4. Remembering back to chemo days, that's the magic minimum number that implies infection so off to ER. Suspecting pneumonia, they took a chest x-ray to look in the lungs and a CT to rule out blood clots... again she was in a lot of pain. So yep, chest x-ray showed pneumonia. Dang. On Thursday night (well, really 5AM Friday morning) she was admitted. Madi has been in the hospital two days now and they're pummeling the pneumonia with IV antibiotics. While the CT didn't show any clots, there were suspicious looking lesions... seemingly new to us lay patients and parents. Wait, what's that mean?! Exactly... to be determined. 

They will keep Madison hospitalized one more night, ideally releasing her by Sunday morning. She has appointments in San Francisco at UCSF on Monday/Tuesday, so assuming she's released tomorrow Sunday, she regroups, showers, and if up to it, blasts up north... hopefully sleeping the whole way.

The clinical trial she's in has explicit criteria, so another CT must be done at UCSF in-house. The MD/principle investigator will compare the new CT with the one taken 8 weeks back, which has been the normal cycle. 

We'll post updates as they're available. Thanks for the prayers and God bless.
The Joneses

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