Abby's Preliminary Culture

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I called our pulmonary team today to see if Abby's culture from her

bronch Wed. had grown anything. They called back and said the right

lung grew only normal flora however the left has grown a low

population (#1) of gram neg. rods. This was a fellow who called me

back - not one of the big dawgs but he said it could be - something

besides Pa - but I can't remember what he called it. It's known for

being intermittant and is common in CF. Knowing she's grown the Pa 3

times - once from bronch before tune up at diagnosis and twice more

consecutively from throat after 2 clean throat cultures - I guess

that's probably what it is. I wasn't happy to hear it but I'm not

surprised. I'm thankful it was a low population and there's still a

chance it won't be Pa although I'm not getting my hopes up. Friday

they'll have it fully identified and we'll see what the team wants to

do about it. She remains totally asymptomatic for which I am also

thankful. She's a chunky little doll-baby.

Joe