Good Evening,

I had to come home again tonight without my big girl.  When I got to the hospital this morning Sharmi’s Shingles outbreak was about 50% worse than when I left last night.  The doctors had already decided that she was staying for at least another day.  They are giving her high doses of anti-viral medication.  The medication has a high risk of causing kidney failure so she has to be on a high volume of IV fluids.  This of course made her get up every hour to go pee resulting in a very bad nights sleep.  They will not be able to send her home until the shingles are under control enough that she can go on a low oral dose of the medication without the risk of kidney failure. 

This afternoon we drew an outline around several of her outbreak patches with a Sharpie marker.  This will help give us a clear indicator as to weather she is getting worse or getting better. 

Sharmi seems to be fairly comfortable.  She has a very high tolerance to pain and so she isn’t complaining much, but she did keep complaining about being tired and she kept asking me to take her home.  I am hoping that I will be able to do that tomorrow.  Please keep praying.

Good night.

Cheris