Dissapointment

What a disappointing day. We had such high hopes this morning that her labs would be good & we could go home tomorrow. Julia was even doing her go home dance. Instead Julia is scheduled for surgery tomorrow @ 8:30 to remove her  "bubble" (ommaya
reservoir) .She has another 14 days of antibiotics in store as well, but we will start them here & finish them @ home. Her white blood counts went up instead of down so that shows that the bacteria is still there & her body is trying to fight it. The doctors gave it their best shot @ clearing the bacteria without removing the ommaya but knew it was only about a 50% shot. Julia of course cried when Dr. Porter told her we couldn't go home yet. Hopefully we will go home this Tues. I"m not counting my chickens yet though, one day @ a time. That's how I'm making it through.