My niece, Courtney, is quite ill at present.  For the last nine weeks or so she has been undergoing tests and treatments for various problems.  While they’re still not certain what is causing her ailments, they have discovered significant immune system problems, probable damage to her heart (as well as a murmur), swollen lymph nodes, loss of appetite and problems eating, malaise and fatigue, and a raging fever that comes and goes in wild swings and knocks her out when it peaks.

It’s a rather complex set of symptoms and problems that explains why they continue to do test after test with little success in finding a diagnosis.  She has been on antibiotics for about nine weeks because they thought it was a bacterial infection, yet now, given recent findings, they’re not convinced that was or is true.

In her normal fashion, she’s being a trooper and attempting to get through her days in as normal a way as possible.  That can’t be easy under the circumstances.

I’ll keep you posted as new information comes in.