Well, the last few days have been bad days - the kind I mentioned where Kathie mostly stays in bed and is pretty nauseous. Today, she couldn't get out of bed on her own, and she was too weak to even take a shower. She felt nauseous right away and spent part of the morning throwing up. Bob took her in to see Dr. Aklilu (I think they may have had an appointment scheduled today anyway) and got some IVs in her - she was very dehydrated. Blood tests showed elevated white blood cells - so she definitely has some sort of infection or virus and the z-pak wasn't cutting it, so they gave her stronger antibiotics. They also ran some x-rays as a precaution to make sure she doesn't have pneumonia or anything like that (we won't know those results until tomorrow, I believe). She did not have to stay in the hospital. After the tests and the IV, Bob took her back to the house.
The Dr.'s office will call if she needs to go back in, or they'll go back if the antibiotics don't seem to be turning things around... but besides that, she'll have a check-up next week.
A little bit of a bummer.
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Give her a hug for us!
~Scott and Katie~
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