It's 11:00 and they're taking her in now to drain the abscess. I was talking to the nurse and the nutritionist (unofficially), and there's talk about the trache next week, as well as doing something about the fluid that keeps collecting around her lungs. One possibility (again, nothing official yet, just possibilities) is to put in chest tubes to keep the fluid coming out without them having to manually drain it. They want to keep the fluid out so she can keep breathing full power without the resistance the fluid is creating. When we know how things went, it will go in here. Pray extra hard for her this morning.
It's 4:30 now, and she's had her abscess drained. They've sent the fluid they got out over to the lab to see what was in it. There was a little blood in there, but they're not sure what else, so we can only wait.
They're going to go in on Monday morning and put in the trache so she can get off the respirator, and they're also going to put some talcum powder around her lungs to help prevent the fluid from coming back.
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