Things Are Looking Up

Just a quick note, there's a line-up at the hospital computer.

Jordan is starting to snap out of it. Things were so wacky it seemed (to Devon and I) that they were tooooooo random to be anything specific, and now that's proving to be the case, so far. She has recovered from the dangerously low sodium levels, which in turn sent her potassium levels into a spiral (down into the heart failure zone). But now that's back up to good levels again, too, so we finally fed her some breastmilk and are letting her float for a few hours to see how she does on her own. The Na/K thing proved to the nephrologist that her kidneys are functioning perfectly, so we're sort of out of the woods on that front. And, for no good reason, her white blood cell count dropped back to 18,000 (only slightly above the "safe" upper limit of 15,000, way down from yesterdays 30,000). So, things are getting better. Also, she seems to be clearing the ACTH, the screaming is almost gone, the blood pressure is low enough that she's off those meds (but it's still too high to be ignored), and she's in no need of antibiotics right now.

We'll be here tonight again, but maybe now that the craziness is settling down we'll be headed home tomorrow or the next day, with no major damage or staggering diagnoses. She just seemed to have an oddball reaction to all of the drugs.

Still waiting to talk to the geneticist (BLECK) at ~4:00 to find out why he thinks his lab results were funny. We'll keep you all posted, and get some pics up later, too (maybe not until we're home, though).

Apologies for any typos, no time to edit.