home again

We made it home! Claire did about 10 laps around the house in excitement and I threw myself on the couch! I guess that tells you that she's feeling much better (and that I'm a bit tired :) So yes, we're home. But she's actually back at the hospital with Jared getting her nightly dose of antibiotics. She was a bit confused why she had to go back so soon, but at least she'll get to sleep in her own bed tonight. We all will!

8 am and 7 pm every day for the next 11 days we'll take her back for the IV antibiotic and then at the end of that treatment, they'll do a final blood culture to make sure the bacteria is all the way gone.

They aren't 100% sure how she got this bacteria, but they think that because of how they connected the liver and the bile duct during the transplant, the "bug" traveled through her gut, into the liver, and then circulated throughout her blood from there. Because she is immune compromised, her body couldn't fight it off. There's a long medical explanation involved, but that's the hypothesis of what caused all this trouble. I guess it's just one of those possible-transplant-side-effects that comes with the territory.

So besides running around the house, what was the first thing she wanted to do when we got home? Blood work. For Annie. She has a renewed spark for doing blood work because she got a whole bunch of new and different supplies to add to her collection! Oh Annie. How loved and needed you are by Claire.

So happy to be home. Even happier to have a happy, healthy, active Claire!