Emily Update

Well, I talked with Emily's doctor yesterday. Since she has been on oral antibiotics since early November, and she is still not "clear", and we have had a slow decline in PFTs and she has lost some weight . . . we are going to do a bronchoscopy. It has been two years since Emily has had one, so the doctor thinks this may help us find something we are missing. We may start IVs at that time as well, depending on what they find with the bronchoscopy. She will probably go in on this Friday, but we will finalize the plans on Monday. I have already talked with Emily about this as she likes to have a full grasp of things that are going to happen to her (after all, this is the girl who since the age of 4 has refused to look away when they draw blood). I am apprehensive as we have not had to go down this road in so long, but I try not to show it in front of her. It will be a long week back to school with all of this looming ahead, but I know in my heart that we need to do something to get her back to her baseline. I will follow up from there . . .in the meantime please pray.