At Bedtime

Tylenol and Ibprophen has helped James perk up a bit. He was more himself when Daddy and his sisters came to visit this afternoon. At least he was able to enjoy the visit. As soon as they left he had to go down for another x-ray. By time he was done with that you could tell he was drained. He took a nap until they woke him up to do blood work again and replace the IV line he had lost a few hours earlier.

The doctors came just after lunch and said they were hearing crackles in his right lung which they had not heard yesterday plus they were concerned about his increased O2 needs again and therefore they sent him for another x-ray. The x-ray came back looking worse then yesterday indicating that there is definitely something going on. This doesn’t tell them whether it’s viral or bacterial, but he has been started on an antibiotic and if that helps we’ll have to assume it was bacterial. They had wanted to also give him a medication which would assist in getting rid of any fluid in the lungs, but after looking at the x-ray they feel the problem is more a virus or infection then fluid. We are still waiting for the results of the stool we sent off testing for C.Diff (and other bacterias as well)

This evening I had to again increase his O2 up to 2L for a period of time, but thankfully we’ve since be able to get it back down to 1L . His heartrate was also hanging in the 170-180’s (110 is a high normal for a child his age, 140 is normal for James), hopefully this is only because of the fevers. Once James seems to be stable and improving they will consider doing a CT Scan, doing a scan now would give us a false indication of the lavage results, so they may want to wait a bit before they go ahead with that plan now.

The bright side of all of this is that it looks to be some sort of virus or infection causing the problems and we can still pray that the lavage truly did a good job and his O2 needs will decrease drastically once this is under control. His cough and hoarse throat have also improved greatly today.