Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Today has been ok. It started off pretty worrisome. With his hr in the 200s. And a fever of 101.6. They gave Tylenol and a few tubes of fluid again. 45 min later his fever finally started coming down. But his hr was still high. So they gave some narcotics. That finally got it back down. And after that it stayed pretty consistently in the 160-170's. When the music therapist came, she played her guitar and softly sang him some songs. His hr was in the 150's then! And he conked out and went to sleep. Since then, his hr has been in the 150-170's. Generally around 160's though. Our nurse said everything else looks perfect. He even was fever free for most of the rest of the day. He just spiked a fever again at about 8:30. 101.3 again. So he's resting with some cool cloths on his head. I have changed 2 diapers today. I never thought I would WANT to change diapers, but I like doing the normal things I would be doing if he was at home. They are doing cultures every day to make sure the infection is starting to go away. If it is and he is still having fevers, it could be just that he is getting fevers related to the heart failure. Or related to the dehydration. They have a very fine balance of too much and too little fluid. It has to be just perfect or his numbers go all screwy. So, that's where we are today.
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Staph infection
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