Post by MIRIAM JACOB on Jul 23, 2007 3:22:55 GMT -5
I have some sad and bad news. Kaleb has been readmitted into the hospital into PICU again. He has been more rigid the last 2 days and very aggitated. Yesterday AM I was laying on the couch with Kaleb on my chest and I thought wow, he feels warm. We didn't have a nurse yesterday (we seem to not have one more than we do), she left at 7 am. So I took his temp. The thermometor that we have is a ear one and it said 97.2. There was NO WAY he was 97.2 so i got out different thermometor and took a rectal temp and it said 99.9. So I decided to trend the temp and take it every 5 minutes and in 30 mins it got up to 101.00. He then started to make a really weird noise and act like he was about to have a seizure. So the ambulance came and took him emergency to the hospital.We sat down in the ER from 9-7:30pm. They ruled out RSV, Influenza, any airborn illness. Everything was ruled out and he looked fine. But then they had to do a Head Tap and draw some CSF from his shunt. That test came back a bit cloudy and there is a high chance that he has Meningitis again. The hospital also says that the way he is posturing is a type of seizure.They have to culture the CSF to see if anything grows. If he does have meningitis, they are going to take Kaleb into surgery either today or tomorrow and remove the shunt. Then they will put a external drain back in his brain and start an antibiotics series again and then go back into surgery and put the shunt back in.
I am extremely sad. I cried all day in the ER. How much can his poor body take? He was doing SO WELL a couple days ago! My heart just aches right now. I want him back home. I loved having him home.
Please I pray for us. I feel weak right now and need to feel God's presence. Please pray for Kaleb.
- Kristy
(Kaleb's Mom)
