Do the enzymes work?

Unfortunately, I don't think they are going to work for us. Maggie has continued to have diarrhea, with it increasing around bedtime (the reason for Maggie going to bed so late recently). Many of the nurses that I've talked with say that they should work immediately, so if that is the case, they are not our "answer." I asked the GI nurse I am in frequent contact with at Cincinnati Children's about our next steps. It might appear that our next steps are a procedure that involves drinking Barium.

Hopeless is the word that I am feeling. I really thought the enzymes might be our answer, but I guess that was too easy of a solution. Easy is not a word used around this household.

I took Maggie into the clinic today to get her labs drawn again. She received lower numbers on her hydration yesterday so they wanted to keep her accessed while giving her a night off of fluids. We were thinking (and maybe hoping) that the fluids were increasing her diarrhea. Maggie's counts today showed that her hydration (or bi-carb) had risen, however her potassium dropped again (from 3.5 yesterday to 3.1 today). Regardless of this decrease, Dr. French gave the okay for Maggie to be de-accessed. We hope that she will maintain her hydration and we don't need to go back to the hospital on Monday. Another little positive piece is that Maggie's weight has increased back up to its original number- 22 lbs. So it appears she has gained back all the weight she had lost from diarrhea. I don't know if the weight loss was from loss of liquids, but I hope that maybe the weight gain shows that her nutrition is coming around. We'll take weight gain no matter what causes it.

I know that our prayer request becomes quite repetitive, but please pray for Maggie's diarrhea to stop, her body to absorb nutrients and of course the most important, that Maggie's cancer is completely gone forever.