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Hi, everyone! This is the first time I've been online since before 's

hip surgery on March 9. has had several complications since the

surgery and is still in the hospital. The day after the surgery she seemed

to be doing fine - eating, drinking and telling me what videos to put on.

But that night things went downhill when she began swelling and her lungs

filled up with fluid, so they called in a pulmonologist and a cardiologist.

She ended up in an oxygen tent because she wouldn't keep a cannula or mask on

her face. She was so afraid of the tent, but her O-2 levels were too low to

be without it. Then she got a fever, rashes and blisters and began having

pelvic pain, so they called in an infectious diseases doc and a

dermatologist. They put her on IV antibiotics, topical antibiotics and 2

topical steriodal ointments and began chest and back percussion, which were

torturous for her because of her skin and being so afraid. They cultured her

blood, urine and fluid from her blisters and found bacteria in her urine,

which the antibiotics are taking care of. She's had to have many blood

draws, sometimes 2 and 3 a day, and she's lost her IV twice. Yesterday an

anesthesiologist came to reinsert it and her gave her demerol first, God

bless him. Today she started fighting her cast - she's trying to sit up (the

cast has her in a semi-reclined position) and she points at it, saying " Off,

off! " The pediatrician thinks she may have a stress ulcer and put her on IV

Zantac a few days ago. The past 8 days have been so traumatic for her that

she has stopped eating and drinking and is a bundle of nerves who barely

sleeps. I've put in a call to her ped psych to request some kind of med to

calm her and help her sleep. She can't come home until she's eating,

drinking and taking oral meds. Bob and I have been taking shifts at the

hospital so that she is never alone. I just came home for a few hours and

thought I would write to my friends on the list to let you all know how

things are going. I have to go now, but I would ask you to keep in

your prayers. It's going to be a long road back from this one. Thank you

for listening and caring,

Maureen