Tuesday, January 3, 2012

So, today we found out Ben has a staph infection. Which, just hearing that, it freaked me out at first. But, the nurse said its fine, they can treat it with antibiotics and it won't affect him getting his heart. She said she thinks he will show some improvement over the next day or 2. This morning he had a few issues. His Bp was pretty low. So they gave him a couple of tubes of fluid. He was pretty dehydrated. His fontenelle was sunken in. Also his potassium and calcium levels were off a bit. But they got those corrected by noon. Then, being the little fighter that he is, he rest of his day was pretty uneventful. His hr was in the 180's for most of the day (which they expect with an infection) until about 6 pm when it got down to the 160's and stayed there for a pretty long time. They took him off the paralytic today too, which was nice. It was nice seeing him be a baby again. So, when he would move around and try to play, his hr would go to the 170's. But since everything else looked good, they're not worrying about it too much and attributing it mostly to the infection and fever. So that part is good. I just keep hoping that one morning I will walk in and they'll tell me a heart is on the way.

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