The Kleinlein Family

No photo today. There's really nothing that you want to see anyway. Meghan has taken a serious turn for the worse. Even with fever medicines, we can only keep her temperature stable at 102 degrees. Her headaches have reached migraine status and her neck stiffness is so severe that we have to turn her manually as she can't do it herself. It's pretty frightening. She doesn't speak to us unless she has to because even the talking hurts her head. Every 10 minutes we are replacing the cold washcloth on her neck and forehead. Even codeine is not doing anything for the headaches. Still nothing has grown on the culture specimen.

They decide to call in the Infectious Disease Team.

After a thorough examination, they are convinced that she has meningitis of the brain. They just don't know if it's bacterial, viral, or chemical. We agreed to let them do a spinal tap.....neither of us looked during the procedure, it was more that we could handle. At least they were able to get some spinal fluid, now we have to wait while they culture this fluid.

It was a tough night. Stephan and I split the night in half: I took until 2am and he took after 2am. We just stayed awake, cooling and rotating the washcloths and helping her to move when needed. At 2am, I finally asked for more serious narcotics (you know it's bad when I ask for drugs!). At least the drugs brought her the ability to sleep, somewhat, in comfort.