New Medication

I once again do not really have anything new to report. The Infection Control peoples decided that we needed to wait a full three days to give the medication a try, even though it was obvious that it wasn't working. Yesterday afternoon made three full days, but do you think they bother to reevalute at the end of the day? Nope, what's another 12 hours, obviously they aren't the one sick or waiting to get out of this place.

Last night at 6pm, 1am and this morning at 7am he again had high fevers. His oxygen requirements were up to 3L at some points during the night since coughing fits made him deSAT. So they could no longer argue to give the medication a chance, if it wasn't obvious enough before it certainly was now that it was not working. This morning they ordered to have his antibiotics changed, unfortunately his IV came out during the night and by time they actually got around to putting a new IV in it was late morning. So he is now running on new antibiotics which they say they have to give 3-4 days chance before making any further decisions. Let us pray no further decisions are needed but that this is the answer. Whatever the case we can expect to be here for the weekend.

James himself continue to do amazing through everything. Ibprophen does the trick to bring the temperatures down. Although awake quite a few times last night he quickly fell asleep when he realized mom was there to hold his hand. During the day he lays around when not feeling well and enjoys life when feeling better. Most days he spends some time sitting in the window watching the cars, or finds it a thrill just to sit on mommy's bed instead of his own. Just give him a new toy every now and then and he's happy and content. What a blessing to have such a easy, adaptable, loving child.

I discovered that I picked a bad day to try the great outdoors, yesterday and today have been much better. After two weeks of hanging around here I'm beginning to feel the effects of doing nothing all day and since I have no idea how much longer this is going to be I've begun to make a point of getting a bit more exercie (yes, walk the stairs instead of the elevators, it's only seven floors :) and am trying to get outside for a view of the city one direction or another each day. So far all I've discovered is that there's no interesting or useful places around here! :)