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in tustin, ca

She's doing very well. They were able to remove the chest tube this afternoon which was the next big hurdle on her road to being discharged from the hospital. We also got transferred out of the PICU although she never needed any intensive care per se but post-op pediatrics they like to put them in PICU. She's still on her antibiotics regime and while she still is coughing she's definitely coughing substantially less often and it doesn't sound as bad as it did before. We're hoping we'll be able to take her home in the next day or two. My back can't take sleeping sitting up for much longer. It's been six nights (five since the procedure).

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just when we thought the munchkin was over the hump and on the road to recovery we've run into a major detour. turns out the current strain of bacterial pnuemonia going around is resistant to the antibiotic that she was taking. while the antibiotic appeared to take care of her fever it didn't kill of the bacteria which got into her chest and caused the pleural effusion. well, in order to drain the fluid in the chest cavity they need to do a surgical procedure. the munchkin had to spend the night at the hospital and they took her into the OR this morning. supposed to be about an hour and a half procedure and hopefully after this she can get back onto the road to a full recovery.

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