Jacob had a fever yesterday morning so they drew some blood cultures. The cultures were positive in his central line and his arterial line. What that means is that there were bacteria in those lines. Ironically, the arterial line was removed last night because it was bleeding, and we have been waiting since yesterday afternoon to have the central line removed because it was ballooning and looked like the tube had an aneurism. He has been on antibiotics for the last 3 weeks, so he should be fine. They drew more blood cultures from the new lines today and hopefully they will be negative.
The Dr wants to let him wake up and move a little more to help get rid of the edema (swelling). That makes me a little nervous, because I really don't want him to hurt. On the other hand, if the edema decreases he won't hurt as much. Also, he will be able to get off of the ventilator faster if he isn't sedated.
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Oh Michelle, this breaks my heart. I am glad to hear that he's doing better though. When I saw that you hadn't been able to hold him until he was 11 days old my heart ached.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad that you've started a blog so I can keep up with you guys but it's bitter sweet given the circumstances for which you've started it.
You and your family are in my thoughts and prayers!