UPDATE on my son in the hospital--good news!! [View All]

[benEzra]

First of all, thanks to all who have expressed support, good wishes, thoughts, and prayers for my son in the original thread. He is doing MUCH better. I just got home from the hospital a couple hours ago (was there since Friday evening, now my wife has tagged in and I am home to recoup), and I just wanted to report that he is doing MUCH better. Took this photo this afternoon:



He has definitely turned the corner on this thing, and is doing well physically and is in good spirits. He asked to be moved from his bed to the chair by the window, so he could look down on the world outside, where there was a sidewalk, a bench, and a picnic table in a grassy area between the children's wing and the main hospital. I was glad I had my camera handy to catch this grin!

He is feeling good enough to charm the nurses again (he has had more girlfriends at age 7 than I have in my entire life...), is a little cranky when they mess with the IV but is generally cooperative and in good spirits. He has been on IV vancomycin and gentamycin since Thursday, plus a brief stint on a fluoroquinone, and has responded well. His fever is gone, his lungs are sounding much clearer, and they are gradually weaning him off the oxygen (he was down to 2 liters/min when I left this afternoon, and his O2 sat was hovering around 92 (he's normally 95-ish on room air), but his heart rate and respiratory rates are back to normal, and he looks great from a cardiac standpoint. He could come home as early as tomorrow or Tuesday, if his sats are OK off oxygen.

THANKS SO MUCH for all of the moral support!!!!!

bE