February 20th, 2011
The first thing the doctor did when I arrived at CIMA was to take a picture of my tummy. We also did an ultrasound on my tummy to make sure everything was looking okay inside. The ultrasound came back fine but the xray showed that my stomach was nothing but a bunch of gas. Turns out that my gastritis I had before I left the hospital has not gotten any better. My blood tests come back showing that I have a fungus in my stomach. Since I have been on so many different antibiotics all the good bacteria in my tummy has been over taken by the bad bacteria and is wreaking havoc on my stomach! The first thing the doc does is put me on another antibiotic to try and kill the bad bacteria. I always take Children’s Primadolphilus when I am home but when I was at the Children’s Hospital my mom was not allowed to give it to me since it was not from their pharmacy and noone seemed to think I should be taking it. Who knows if it would have helped to keep me from having this problem. Right now I am taking loads of good bacteria to try and get my stomach stabilized. My good mood from ealier in the day has disappeared. We get transferred back up to a room on the second floor. Mom was not thrilled to have to see all the nurses again! We were so hoping not to have to be back here for a very long time. I lasted three days! Ugh.
On a good note, my respiratory system is working well.
Malia