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Archive for December, 2009

Zachary had another rough night… He was up coughing and puking half the night. Zachary spiked a fever last evening , but over night he was fever free!!! His blood pressure 118/88 still a little high and sats 90%-94% are doing much better. He did break out in hives again , we think from the Tamaflu but with some benadryle and Vistral

Zachary during his PH study on Monday

Zachary during his PH study on Monday

He did MUCH better. The plan is to hopefully send us home today on 2 Antibiotics and Tamaflu. Overall Zachary is looking and feeling a little better. Zachary hates being here and gets no sleep. He just does so much better at home.

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Thank you for all your thoughts and prayers, be patient if you called to get tested and they have not called back. They will call.. Give them time and if they don’t call in 2 days than call back. Thank you to everybody that are being tested.. All of you are HERO’S!!!

Stacey

Friday, December 4th, 2009
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Zachary not feeling so good.. :(

Zachary not feeling so good.. :(

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Zachary had a very rough night. He was very MISERABLE! with the hives and jumping around in his bed like a fish out of water from iching so bad. I felt awful… He was having a very hard time breathing. His o2 sats were 84%-90% all night. He was up ALL night coughing and feeling pretty sick! and I felt helpless.

Now today his sats are 92%, he still has hives and his eyes are still a little swollen with green junk. Overall he is feeling much better! The antibiotics are working… I am still waiting on the results from the PH study that he had on Monday, as soon as I get them I will update.
The plan is to keep a close eye on him and make sure he keeps heading down the road to recovery.

Thank you for all your thoughts and prayers,
Stacey

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
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Zachary is back in the hospital U of M 5a 219…ONE ROOM DOWN FROM YESTERDAY

Last night Zachary was discharged from the hospital, he did awesome for the PH test. We should get the results back some time tomorrow.

Less than 20 hours later Zachary is back in the hospital… Last night at about 3am Zachary woke up coughing pretty bad, he aspirated . When he woke up in the morning he looked awful and had a fever of 100.7. I brought him in to his primary and they did a chest x-ray and confirmed that he has Pneumonia in both lungs again! He also has a nasty bladder infection. So here we are back in the hospital. When we got here Zachary’s eye started to pour out green junk! And he has hives on his back, arms and tummy. He is MISERABLE! They started him on Oral Antibiotics, Tamaflu and eye drop Antibiotics a long with his other 39 medications. I feel so bad for him .. He looks and feels awful! They drew blood cultures and they swabbed him for all nasty viral infections .

Please pray that Zachary can fight this nasty infection.. Zachary is very immune suppressed so this is going to be hard for him. He is running a fever 102.2 and his sats have been between 87-93% . Zachary’s Blood Pressures are back up again 130/90!

Thank you for all your thoughts and prayers,
Stacey

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
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We went home last night!! but guess were we are NOW!! back at the U of M. Zachary aspirated last night when he was sleeping. He now has a fever and severe aspirating pneumonia. I feel so bad:( he is feeling pretty yucky!! It happened so fast.

I will update later when i have more time…

Stacey

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
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