Sunday, March 13, 2011

it continues

So after 6 units of platelets and the nurses keeping Jeff up until 4am, his blood still wasn't clotting the way it should have. It took some debate between the doctors but they finally decided to give him a "super drug" called octyplex. It seemed to work because the lumbar puncture was done soon after we arrived to the hospital. Since the LP was done, they could now start him on  some hard core antibiotics. They don't mess around with infections in the brain. Friday was a day for meds. They pumped him full of every antibiotic they could think of and his dilantin (anti seizure medicine) level was low so they pumped some more of that in him as well. They also started Jeff on sodium pills to try and increase his sodium levels. With all of this gonig on and since we have our little man with us in the hospital every day, the nurses decided it was better for Jeff to be in a private room. The private room didn't last for long since someone else needed the room the next day so Jeff got moved into a new room. We still aren't sure of what type of infection he has, if he even has one. Jeff is super sore in the hips and back and neck which makes walking hard but he is getting up moving a bit. Some of the pain is from the the LP some from laying in the bed for a week and i'm sure some from an infection.
We are not sure about when we can leave the hospital now. We have to get the infection under control and then figure out the sodium issues and then find the right levels for his dilantin and then maybe we can think about going home (at least for a few weeks before treatment starts).

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  1. So do we know the results yet and what treatment will be? It was really nice seeing you guys up there. Jeff you are looking great considering what you are going through. Cass, we weren't kidding when we said we would come take archer off your hands if you needed even just for a couple hours ! That is what friends are for :)

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