House Calls

Never like it when the phone rings and you're dead asleep. Never like it when the phone rings at 6:30 in the morning and your son is in the NICU. So guess what happened...

Well, I think I gave you too many clues, but good job anyway. When we visited Thomas last night, he was sacked out. He'd had a full bath and dressing change and was sleeping off all of the activity. He barely moved while we there, which is not necessarily out of the ordinary. The nurse watching him throughout the night decided that there might be something wrong though and early this morning she called in the doctor.

So the doctor made a house call (chuckle, guffaw). Dr. Baetiong called to let us know that Thomas might have an infection. They are running a culture, which takes 24 to 72 hours to get results and in the mean time, she started anti-biotics. If its an infection, which it looks like it is, and its the right strain/anti-biotic match, he could start responding this afternoon. They may need to try a different anti-biotic otherwise. Everything else looks good. His blood-gas came back good and they gave him a transfusion to help his white blood cells and platelets, which were both low.

As usual, I'll let you know if there are any updates.