The past couple of days have been very, very difficult. Yesterday Nora had terrible withdrawal symptoms and high fevers. There didn’t seem To be any answers and we couldn’t get things under control. She is finally sleeping after being awake and agitated for 32 hours straight.

In an attempt to find the source of the fevers they opted to do a CT scan just to cover all of our bases and make site we weren’t missing anything. We were told it probably wouldn’t show anything, so not to worry. (Because we all know how much worrying helps things.)

We were initially told that the spot of fluid was on her stomach, but as it turns out the spot is on one of her lungs. It is unrelated to her stomach issue. An ultrasound revealed that it IS able to be accessed for obtaining a specimen of the fluid, but also showed that the fluid does not look to be clear which can be an indication of infection (as would her fevers and elevating white blood cell count). If it IS infected she will need surgery to drain it, which possibly means another intubation. Obviously we would want to avoid that. Silver lining scenario… Maybe this all happened with her belly to reveal a small but potentially worsening problem on her lung. How else would we have known?

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
(Romans 8:28)

Just wish God didn’t have to go and be all DRAMATIC about it!

Please pray for Nora. We have another long day ahead of us… And she’s waking up crying again…