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Well, Julia is now finished with Cipro…that awful oral antibiotic that reeked havoc on her intestines.  She is now infected with c. diff., something that is not new to her.  Julia has gone months and months without having c. diff. and I was hoping that we would be done with it forever, but it’s looking like every time she goes on an oral antibiotic, we may have this to look forward to afterward.  This complicates things because she’ll be on all kinds of antibiotics her entire life.  Her stomach just seems to be very fragile and its balance is easily off set.  Julia is now on a new antibiotic to fight the stomach infection.  Strange…antibiotics can cause c. diff. and then used to fight it.  Sometimes I just don’t get it.  She’ll be on this new antibiotic for ten days and then she’ll be retested.  C. diff. can be hard to get rid of and in the past it has taken several rounds to beat it down.

On another note, Julia has been going to her Gymboree classes for several months now and she just loves it.  It’s nice for her to get to do something just for her.  We go to class when Austin and Olivia are in school and afterward we go to Einstein’s Bagels for a snack.  Julia looks forward to this once a week and we always have to get a bagel when we’re done.