So Stephen had the doctors a little stumped. The type of strep that came back is generally a contaminent meaning it wouldn't be something in his blood stream but possibly something that came into contact with the blood after it was drawn. The doctor however was convinced that was the case since he did have other signs of an infection, a mild fever, elevated crp, higher oxygen requirements, so he was going to defer to a specialist. Joe and I waited all afternoon in hopes of talking to the doctor of infectious diseases...seriously they should come up with a new name for that...it just sounds gross. We stayed until 6:15 and then decided to grab some dinner and skype with our kiddos and of course the doctor snuck in while we were gone so we didn't get to bombard her with our questions. The neonatoligst said she they were going to play it safe and continue the antibiotics for 10 days.
Then came last night...seriously poor guy.
Apparently the neonatalogist missed a message from the infectious disease person that said they should do a spinal tap to be safe. They tried contacting us at 11:30 pm but we were sound asleep. They went ahead and did a spinal tap and it was negative. They also were having a hard time with his picc line flushing so they had to put another IV in his foot. My heart feels for this kid. I hate that he has to go through so much and I wish I could take it off of his plate. He is such a fighter.
Please continue to pray for healing and specifically that his oxygen requirements would go down and that the so called infection will be gone at the end of the 10 days =0)
Thank you!
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