Day 2

Nathan is hanging in there. When his motrin starts to wear off, his fever shoots up to crazy high levels within minutes. His afternoon temp was 103.7 under his arm, and he was one very sick boy during that time. What we thought would be a quick trip for fluids has turned to be a bit longer stay than we were imagining...Nate's CRP level was really high, signaling some form of inflammation process in his body. That coupled with a high WBC count and the seemingly unending high temps made the team add antibiotics into the plan in case the little guy had some kind of bacterial infection we were missing. They also had to add an additional quick fluid bolus earlier today because Nathan hadn't had a wet diaper in many hours. Thankfully this did the trick, and Nate started wetting diapers again a little after lunch.

The wonderful news is that I saw a spark in my little man once again this evening. For about an hour, he talked and smiled and was amusing me by throwing his puppy, Tebow, over the crib walls. He even ate and kept down a popsicle. After some play, he was once again worn out, but it was so great to see him coming back to himself again. It is quite frightening at times when he gets so sick and he seems so unlike himself. I am thankful that he seems to be turning a corner.It looks like we will be here another couple of days at least. There were plans to transfer us down to the IMC unit since Nathan has done a pretty good job at keeping his sugars down with his D10 solution going, but I was just informed that they may not be able to take us since it is so hard to get a bed in that unit. It's beginning to look like we will be spending the night in the PICU once again. The attending that just came in to check on Nate said that if he continues to improve, we may be able to skip the IMC unit and go straight to the regular floor in the next day or so.

I am so very thankful we have this wonderful hospital so close to home. The doctors and nurses are excellent, and I really appreciate their caring natures. We have started to "get to know" some of the docs on this floor, and they all are so friendly and informative. That makes it so much easier to be here when we would rather be anywhere but here.