Things were better today. Yesterday was his first day off of the antibiotics. His white blood count (WBC) had gone as low as 1.3 and rose to 1.5 yesterday. A low WBC is apparently as dangerous as a high one. Without enough white blood cells your body can't fight infection. His kidney levels and several others things improved slightly as well. He looked terrible though yesterday. He slept most of the day and when he did wake up he was exhausted. So much so that his speech was slurred. Everytime he got out of bed he became faint and had the cold sweats and light-headed feeling. He did not run fever yesterday or have the chills.
Today his kidney levels were in the normal range and his WBC reached 2.0. Normal is 4.8 to about 9. It is baby steps, but even the ID doctor is saying the surgeon may have been right. Again no fever or chills today and the cold sweats were less. He did sleep most of the day again. The docs are saying that his body is just wore out from the fight against the antibiotics for the last five days. I went back up to the hospital around 6:30 this evening and brought him Taco Bell. The surgeon was trying to give him a pep talk and told him if he didn't want to eat the hospital food maybe I could bring him a treat...like Taco Bell. His face lit up because he loves that mess. So he ate 1 1/2 soft tacos and really enjoyed them. After that we washed him up and changed his bed. For those of you that have seen him recently we also shaved that horrible mustache and beard off as well! Then he sat up in bed the rest of the evening drinking apple juice and eating crackers. I really think things are heading in the right direction. They are still running more cultures on his blood to make sure no other infections pop up.
They also put a PICC line in him this week. This is an IV line that goes into a deep vein in his arm. They can give him any meds through this line and draw blood from there as well. He will also see a nutritionist and work with physical therapy tomorrow. He needs to start building up his strength again.
Laura went to visit her new school yesterday and seemed to like the place. She will start Monday for a few hours each day. Daley is going to VBS next week at LOL. It will be a nice break for both children. Also, our anniversay is on Sunday. I don't know what calendar I was looking at before. He will be in the hospital, but hopefully he will still be improving.
We will see what his WBC looks like tomorrow. Maybe he can start having visitors again on Sunday.
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