Monday, September 22, 2008

More downs

The Drs are somewhat worried about Daniel's current desats so they've started to look to see if he has an infection. Having been through this before we're understandably nervous, but right now no one is sure if this is an infection or a major one.

The facts are:
His C related protein (as related to inflammation not infection per se) is up from 5 to 45
White cell count is up to 37k
Frequent desats requiring more effort to recover (rather than natural recovering) but still relatively mild vent settings
Water in the lungs
Otherwise everything else seems normal

So based on that they are putting him on erythromicin, gentamicin, and cefotaxime, feeding him through peripheral iv (for now) and monitoring closely.

Also for Sofia no progress on her PDA so today's final course will indicate if we need to take other action.

2 comments:

Maltese Falcon said...

Grandmommie and Granddaddy are hoping for a speedy recovery. We are thinking of you all the time, and we can't wait to see Daniel and Sofia again. We love you.

Tricia Collins said...

We're thinking of you Daniel and Sophia. Keep fighting. There's a little boy who wants to play with you!!