Denise was having a line put into her leg when I called this evening. This is to monitor her BP at 10 minute intervals. There has been no progress on nailing down the infection. All of her organs have been checked and ultrasounds have been run against them. Kidneys, heart, liver et al are all working to plan. The good news is that because Denise's renal functions are good there is no need to recall her old mate, Marvin. That's Mr Dialysis for those of you not in the know. The medical consensus (a better one than the bloody global warming consensus) is that the BP fluctuations are being caused by the infection, whatever it is.
Our girl is not doing handstands or brimming with optimism at the moment but she is positive about the whole thing and seeing it as just something else that she has to do. She is confident that they will isolate the infection. The outcome could be that it is the same infection that she had during the transplant and she will have to stay on antibiotics to keep it locked down. Thinking back, it seems to me that the whole coughing thing began after she was taken off the bactrim.
Onward and upward as they say in the classics - more tomorrow.
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