Day 2 - Transplant

Avarie hasn't gotten sick since yesterday. I think it was the chemo she had yesterday morning that made her sick. She seems to be doing OK today, not eating a lot, but a little bit. Her infection is not the cold that we all have had, so far she has not gotten that and I am trying desperately to scrub my hands and sanitize and not breath on her at all. So far so good, Craig is trading me out this afternoon. I had stayed with her because we thought she had the cold so it didn't matter. Now we realize she doesn't and so I am trying to get out of here before I infect her. Her counts are starting to drop. They are still in a good range, but they are half of what they were yesterday.
She has tested positive for two bacterias. Not sure yet which bacterias they are exactly, but we know that they are both Gram A bacterias. One is a Gram A positive and one is a Gram A negative. I don't exactly know what that means yet. It is just a classification and which bacterias they are exactly we should find out later today or tomorrow morning at the latest. They are not anything that someone exposed her to. They think they are bacterias that just naturally reside in our bodies and hers has just turned into an infection. That's common in immune suppressed people. The strange thing is that she is not immune suppressed right now. She definitely has a weakened immune system, but her counts are really good. Her body should be able to keep the bacterias under control, but for some reason she's not. They are thinking that one of the bacteria infections could be stemmed from her original buddy. The surgeons didn't remove it 2 weeks ago when they put her new buddy in, her Hickman. We wanted it out, but the surgeon said that it is better to keep it in case we need additional access to her veins or for when we take the Hickman out the port is better because it is located under the skin and not exposed to germs, where as the Hickman is on the outside of her body and can get infected easier. She has had bacteria infections before that have grown from blood drawn from her old buddy, so it is possible that her old buddy may be the source of the infection. At least that is one possibility and they are discussing and trying to figure that all out today. They have to make the decision soon before her counts drop too much lower.
I am just so glad that she is tolerating everything so well so far. She could be a lot sicker with two bacteria infectious and these major chemo's going into her body, but so far today she is still just spunky little Avarie.