Two weeks and two  days after the last infusion of IVIG

Ivy is sick.

It’s not surprising, really, considering she didn’t get the whole dosage of the Intragam P

Two weeks and two days without IV antibiotics and both of her ears are discharging.

Growth: Staph and Pseudomonas.

The staph is just your garden variety though

and so the paed

has decided he will trial her on our old friend Erythromycin.

I’m not sure whether to laugh or cry.

Part of me lives in hope that the oral antibiotics will be enough,

that we can avoid the hospital and make it through the rest of the week.

Then it will be IVIG time again.

Plus the paed is off to Sydney.

Plus David is running training.

So next week would be a much better week for Ivy to fall in a heap, all round, it seems.

Part of me wants to be thankful that it is only staph A

and not the dreaded multi resistant staph that plagued us last May, June and July (okay and parts of August and November too)

but

another part of me wants to throw my hands up in horror.

Staph!

Again!

Pseudomonas!

Again!

It’s only been two weeks and two days!

Also;

(and I hate to be the pessimistic one in this relationship)

I don’t think the orals will do much to help Ivy, we are long past that

and if the EES helps with the destruction of Staph, we are just making way for the Pseudomonas to take hold.

Pseudomonas and Ivy have a long history together.

That nasty little bug makes Ivy acutely unwell,

very quickly

and

it gets into other places

like  the lungs and  her eyes.

I suppose you could say the Staph is our friend, right now.

It’s making it almost impossible for the Psuedomonas to take hold.

Staph loves oxygen

Pseudomonas loathes it.

Bacteria 101 at its finest.

The fact that the Pseudomonas is there at all though, is just not a good sign for the girl

and if I was anything worth my salt

I would get back on the phone with the doctor and tell him

that I think

that IV antibiotics are the only thing that will clear this new infection

or old infection, revamped.

Who knows.

The other problem is Ivy’s inability to stomach oral antibiotics…

I could go on and on but it all seems so overwhelming right now

and stressful

and frustrating

and repetitive.

The sad thing is,

I think it will mean ballet is out for the girl

and pre school too

and

for this week, at least,

we will be lounge dwellers

once more.