Tonya Is Home

Tonya made it home around 6 this evening. She has to continue antibiotic therapy for two weeks. Please pray for no complications. Brian

Tonya Not Progressing Well

The doctor came in this morning and told Tonya, despite his best efforts her potassium and magnesium are still low even though she has been getting them by IV since she has been in the hospital.
He said she is going to need to be on IV antibiotics for at least a couple of weeks even after she comes home. Since the labs are all messed up, the coming home thing may have to wait until Sunday or Monday. Right now that is still anyone's guess, but I think if they can get them back into normal range she should be able to come home sometime this weekend, we hope.
She is still hurting in her side and they say it is not a result of the current infection, however, no one seems to know what is causing it. It is looking like all the tests that are going to be done have been done. I am not aware of anymore tests that are on the schedule at this time. I don't know what else is to come but hopefully she will be home by the end of the weekend. Brian

Tonya Update

The doctor says Tonya has a blood stream infection and the bacteria is growing Enterococcus. He said she will have to be on IV antibiotics for two or three weeks and he is going to call the infection control doctor. He said the infection appears to have gotten into her blood stream from a urinary infection. He also said it appears there may be some colitis going on and possibly Chrones disease. He said the colonoscopy would either confirm or rule out Chrones disease and or ulcerative colitis. I will send another update after the tests are completed later today. Brian