Yesterday seems like a week ago. Well yesterday I finally cracked and became a little overwhelmed. Turns out that will happend when I try to do the Nurses, Nursing Assistants, and Housekeeping jobs. The two nurses we had were great! We had them again today and I think we will have at least one tomorrow. Tonights nurse is cool so far. Jason was finally able to start taking sips of water and keeping it down. Wahoo for small blessings.
Well things today have not gone so smoothly. I was going to go home to Roo today but Jason was still having problems breathing. This morning during vitals he was having a pretty severe bout of Tachycardia (fast heart rate). They did a 12 lead ekg came back normal, they did a ct angiography to see if there were any blood clots. That came back negative for blood clots but did show some areas suspicious of infection. So they proceeded to do a bronchcoscopy. Put J to sleep, inserted a camera on a bendy tube down his throat to get a picture of his lungs. They flushed with saline and then sucked it up to see what they can find out on cultures. Speasking of which his blood culture from yesterday came back positive for Cocci which I think is a form of staph. They now have him on 4 antibiotices, 1 anitviral, and 2 antifungals. Ontop of all his other meds. Doesn’t sound like too much fun. He is getting a platelet transfusion, has an oxygen mask on, got a breathing treatment, arterial blood draw. Now he is sleeping. J was also evaluated by a nurse from the Critical Care Unit (ICU) to see he warranted higher nursing attention or if he would benefit from moving to the CCU. The nurse evaluated him and decided to just watch and see what would happen. He talked to Dr. Nieto and discussed J’s case, Dr. Neito argeed!So, just another turn on our Merry Go Round of life!
Tomorrow I am going home after Dr. Nieto sees Jason. He really is a great doctor. Well keep on healing!!!Prayers Welcomed!! Kimmy