Septic Again

Well Caleb has another infection which has made him septic. He woke up two nights ago vomiting all night long. They finally pulled his ND (nasal duodenum) tube and placed a NG (gastrointestinal) tube to suction what was in his gut. The vomiting at that time finally stopped!!! However, they did try to place an OG (oral gastrointestinal tube) while the ND tube was in and he wouldn't breathe and his profusion (blood flow) was horrible. Once the ND was pulled Caleb seemed a lot more comfortable and the profusion got better. They did call a 'rapid response' (when they page the PICU team) to have the PICU group come and see him. He is being closely monitored now. They did cultures of all of his lines, urine, you name it. Nothing has grown yet. Since nothing has grown, the concern now becomes if he has another fungal infection. We continue to pray that if this is a fungus it doesn't spread to his heart and cause any problems. They believe a part of the infection is that his bowels/intestines went to 'sleep' and have stopped moving. An x-ray showed that his intestines were very large and so we are hoping the bowels will start moving again soon so we can place a new ND tube and start feeding him again soon. He has been pretty cranky since he got sick. We are praying that he can clear this infection and get better very soon.

As far as the Thymus I mentioned in my last post, it didn't past the screening process. They then were screening another thymus which looked great and passed almost all the tests, until today when it failed one of the last two tests. So again we are waiting for another Thymus. Dr. Markert did mention that there are going to be two heart surgeries next week, so we are praying for consents to be signed and for a good Thymus.

I know I promised pics from Caleb's birthday, but he is pretty cranky and is only sleeping for 15 minutes at a time. . . so we are pretty busy. I promise I will post them soon.

God Bless Everyone.

God Bless Caleb!!