Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Week Five Medical Update

We are now into week five of our hospital stay. As you can see from the pictures, my parents visited over the weekend, and we had fun going outside with Raul. Raul loves that he is allowed out now, so I will continue to take him out. Raul's course of antibiotics is supposed to be two weeks, and I think we are about half way through now. He was started on a second antibiotic, but taken off after two days as his cultures were coming back negative. His blood cultures continue to come back negative now, which is great, though he still has a fever and diarrhea. His fevers have gotten lower, but they are still there. His antibiotic schedule has been switched a bunch of times from every 6 hours, to every 4, to continuous, and now back to every 6 hours. They are trying to get the level perfect, but so far it seems to be helping. Though then again, it seemed to work last time, and he had more infections just two days later. Hopefully this time it will really clear everything! We had some excitement with his PICC line over the weekend, where the dressing had come off under his gauze, pulling the line almost all the way out. Luckily, they did an x-ray and while it is no longer a central line, we can still use it as a peripheral line. We narrowly escaped having to get another one! There has also been discussion about getting an MRI of his leg to make sure there is not a bone infection. It was all scheduled for tomorrow, but late in the day today they decided to hold off on doing it for now.

12 comments:

  1. Hi Caroline and Raul! I just wanted to drop by and say "Hi" and tell you that I've been keeping up with your blog. Caroline, can you send me an email with an address, so I can mail some goodies to you & sweet Raul? My email is jomoseley57@gmail.com
    I'm Praying for both of you! Love ~ Jo

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  2. Visiting from Tripp's blog! Your are truly a precious person and what a blessing you are to Raul. You both are in my thoughts and prayers! Allison

    http://ourlittlefamily-allison.blogspot.com

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  3. Visiting from Tripp's blog! I just wanted to say that you are an incredible person. Raul is so lucky to have you in his life, what you are doing is incredible. Prayers and good thoughts being sent your way!

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  4. Visting from Tripp's blog! You have prayers from here in Louisiana. God has blessed you with a special gift and we will continue to pray for him to give you strength to help your precious Raul!

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  5. Also vistiting from Tripp's blog. You're an inspiration. It's so uplifting to see your devotion to that sweet child. Sending prayer's to you and Raul.

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  6. Visiting from Tripps blog! Just wanted to say that you are an amazing person. The world needs more selfless people <3

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  7. Hello! I also have came across your blog from Tripps. And want to tell you how wonderful you are for caring so much for Raul. He is such a cutie by the way. Sending prayers to you and your little Romanian Butterfly.

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  8. Hey Caroline and Raul, I found your blog through EBing Mommy. You are such a wonderful young woman, your decision to volunteer is so inspiring! I am so glad your heart told you "Go!" and you obeyed.

    Raul's sad eyes are so worth our love and prayers!

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  9. I agree with Sandryte... Raul is worth our love and prayers! God bless you Caroline~ you are God's love in action!

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  10. You are simply amazing. More than words can say. You do and have done what so many women would like to think they would do. Raul is truly blessed!

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  11. Caroline...you are doing such a wonderful job. You have so much to offer. For the life of me, I cannot imagine why you would even need to work with other organizations. You rock! and don't need to get bogged down in all that other stuff. Rest assured, I got the BEE covered and he is right where he needs to be. So sorry you got dragged into the dirt. Raul is so cute and so so lucky to have you!

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  12. Thanks everyone for your messages! And Ellen, I actually did do the whole process myself for Raul, he is not here through an organization :)
    -Caroline

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