sepsis

So when I said that Jacob's line infection was not big deal, it turns out that was a lie. When they drew the original blood cultures they drew blood out of his central line, his arterial line, and a peripheral site. There was bacteria in the central line and arterial line, but not the peripheral site which implied that the infection was only in the lines and not throughout his whole body. They have since drawn another 2 sets of blood cultures and last night one of them came back positive from every place the blood was drawn. That means the infection is everywhere and he is officially septic. The bacteria is sensitive to the antibiotics he has been on, but the levels of antibiotic in his blood were a little too low to be completely effective. They have adjusted the dose of the antibiotics, so hopefully we can clear up the infection quickly.

Jacob has been a lot more awake the last few days, and the swelling seems to be going down. He still has a long way to go though. Before he had surgery he weighed 7lbs 5 oz. He was weighed last night and he was 10 lbs 13 oz. That is a lot of extra fluid! Poor little guy looks kind of like the stay puffed marshmallow man.

On a positive note, Jacob may be able to come off the ventilator soon. They have been decreasing his ventilator settings and he has been tolerating it really well. I'm hoping he can get off of it in the next day or two. I really, really want to be able to hold him again.

Yesterday we took Jeremiah to the zoo for some normal happy family time. Jeremiah loves animals, he has a little toy elephant that goes everywhere with him.

His favorite part was the carousel because he could see a lot of animals all at once, he doesn't care that they aren't real.