Decisions

Livie is still pretty sick, the stomach bug she has is C-Diff, which is really painful, and the bacteria that caused her Spinal Meningitis is the worst kind, meaning it has the worst side effects (higher rate of brain damage and death) so she has to be on heavy dose of anitbiotics for a long time. Since Alyvia has to be on anitbiotics for so long she needs IV access to put them in...which is a problem because all her veins are bad (they're ruined...from being poked way too many times, sad huh.) So she can't have any more IV's, but she can't have PIC lines (central lines) in either. For some reason whenever she has a central line it clots. She already got 2 blood clots that we know of from having a line in. She can't be on blood thinners for the clots because she has to have the lumbar drain put back in....so we have to decide what to do. Is it worth the risk of another blood clot? We have to decide.