Hospital.

When I blogged Tuesday morning at 3am about Maylyn's trip to the emergency room

I wasn't expecting to be back there a couple hours later...

Maylyn didn't improve at all Monday night/Tuesday morning

 so when 8am rolled around I made a call to her pediatrician who told me to take her straight back to the emergency room.  She called ahead which helped grease some wheels so as soon as we got there they put her in a room of her own in the ER and admitted her to the hospital.

We had to wait about 5 hours for a room on the pediatric floor but at least they were able to hook her up to an IV and get some drugs into her right away.

The infection in her lymph nodes on the right side of her neck caused her neck to swell considerably.  She's been in so much pain that they've been giving her morphine as well as broad spectrum antibiotics to fight the infection that caused this whole mess.

After two full days (Tuesday and Wednesday) of IV antibiotics, and no change, they decided to do a CT scan Thursday morning to see what was happening in that neck of hers. 

They found an abscess had developed and decided to do surgery to drain it.

They did the surgery yesterday (Thursday) and it went well.

The surgeon left the drain in her neck and she should hopefully get it removed tomorrow.

She hasn't eaten since we've been here so they're hoping now that some of that pressure has been released that she'll start feeling better and be able to eat.

I had to coax her to eat a few bites of dinner tonight but did get her to drink most of a can of PediaSure so at least she's getting some vitamins.

Depending on how she's recovering, we may be out of here on Sunday.  Fingers crossed.

There's so much more to write here but I'm pretty sleep deprived and on the verge of an emotional meltdown any minute so I just wanted to get part of this down while it's fresh.

I'll try to keep the blog updated with her condition...