Let me begin this post by saying Evan is much better. Now for the details. He had one type of bacteria & one type of staph in his blood. The names escape me at the moment. The Broviak line was indeed the culprit for the infections. That was removed from his chest on Monday. Ev has been on seveal different antibiotics which have changed as they zeroed in on the specific bugs. As of today he has no more infection in his bloodstream.
The length of our stay here kept changing daily & changed 2 differnt times yesterday AM. The current plan is that we will hang out here until Moday, while Evan receives IV antibiotic therapy & generally recovers from the septic shock. He will then go home on just oral anitbiotics. His body has develped Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcous, so he can't have Vanc infusions anymore. THis VRE is something he will have the rest of his life & something Harold & I will have to be careful not to contract. Ev is in isolation for the duration of his hospital stay, which is a bummer as he is feeling pretty good & wants to do something fun!
With each converstaion with the docs here it becomes clearer how close to death our son was on Saturday. I was asking God yesterday morning why Ev had to have this close call. About an hour later his Infectious Disease doc was telling us several things that were starting to happen in Ev's body that they wouldn't have found out about if he hadn't gone into septic shock: the VRE, some mild damage starting to happen to his kidneys as a side effect of the Vanc. treatment, and a couple of other things that would have had some serious long term effects on his health. So this was a (stressful) blessing in disquise.
Another blessing is that Evan's hip surgeon came by Monday to examine him & declared that he no longer needed his brace. So he is walking unencumbered.
So a week ago today our summer outlook was 3 more months of IV therapy twice a day, having to be home every night by 8 for the infusions, no swimming, or showers but now Evan will go home with no tubes of any type in his body, on oral antibiotics only & able to swim & shower & stay out late at night. We are rejoicing in that!
Harold & I are now exhausted & are crashing from the 3 or 4 days of adreniline-stress rush. We look forward to Monday! Thanks to everyone for their prayers & love.
I'm glad to hear that Evan is feeling better. That's scary how sick he was! My prayers will continue!
Posted by: Jessica | June 28, 2007 at 11:07 AM
Wow, God is so good. Praise God that He worked this whole situation for good! We love you guys. Give Evan a hug for us.
Posted by: Eleanor | June 28, 2007 at 02:47 PM
Praise God! That is amazing and scary all at the same time. We are so thankful!
Posted by: Molly | June 28, 2007 at 10:10 PM
Wow, Lori. You've been on a roller coaster. Thankful for modern medicine, no matter how frustrating it sometimes is. So glad that was treated in time, and successfully.
Take care of yourselves and each other!
Posted by: Julana | July 01, 2007 at 07:01 PM