Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Day 135

We were hoping that our doctors would have something brilliant worked out, but they seem to be as stumped as we are. I don't have much new to add since yesterday, unfortunately. His fever hasn't spiked again, but we're also keeping him dosed around the clock with Tylenol. The cultures we sent off didn't show anything, so we're cleared from isolation/contact precautions. The negative cultures also mean we still don't have any answers. We know something is going on, but we don't know what.

He does seem to be doing a little better today (and I hesitate to type that, since I always seem to jinx it), but he's nowhere near all better. He's been more alert this morning than he has been for the past week, and he doesn't seem to be hurting as much. Hopefully, whatever was going on has passed through his system, and now we can concentrate on getting him better.

His vomiting was back in full force this morning as well, and he wasn't really coughing that much when it hit, so I don't know if we can blame the throwing up on his coughing anymore. Our GI doctor is out of town for spring break, so we won't talk with him until next week. We could get a consult from another doctor, but we're not sure how productive it would be to involve yet another doctor who doesn't really know what's going on. We're going to do another upper GI study to see if that shows anything, and just try to manage the vomiting as best as we can until next week. The attending on the floor this week seems to think it's something like Cyclical Vomiting Syndrome, but he always adds the disclaimer that GI is in no way his specialty.

Everyone seems to have a lot of ideas, but no concrete answers. I'm praying for those answers to come soon, and I hope to have an even better update for tomorrow. Thank you again for your prayers and encouragement. I can't tell you how much they mean to us!

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