Caden got very sick yesterday. I met Sherry at the doctor’s office at 11am. Caden’s fever topped out at 105.4 while in the pediatrician’s office. We gave him over the counter stuff that knocked the fever out, but it took about an hour and a half to get it down. While waiting on the fever to break, I accidentally pulled Caden’s G-Tube button out of his belly when I picked him up while sitting on the end of his tube. To put this into perspective, that means an inflated bubble a little larger than 1/2 inch in diameter came out a 1/8 hole in his belly. I was so upset. I think I was more upset than Caden. He was already so miserable with the fever and then this. The doctor was right there when it happened and his first question was, “do you know how to put that thing back in?” I assured him that I did. I put the g-tube button back in after I gathered myself up.
After all that the doctors checked Caden’s lungs. They sounded clear and his oxygen saturation were averaging 96 which is good. Caden had been on a very strong oral antibiotic (omnicef) for six days. The doctor sent Caden to MUSC for a chest x-ray and blood work. The initial results came back showing Caden’s lungs clear but his white blood cell counts were elevated with what they call a left shift on his blood work. These indicators told them that Caden has some kind of bacterial infection, but they wouldn’t know where the infection was until the blood cultures had a chance to grow. The cultures can take up to 48 hours. Once the pediatrician got the initial blood work results back yesterday (approx 5pm) he called me and requested that we take Caden in for a very strong antibiotic injection (I think rocephin?) as soon as we could get him to the hospital. While preparing Caden to go to MUSC he spiked a 104+ fever again. We medicated him and hit the road for the hospital. Caden spent over four hours at MUSC emergency room and got a very painful injection in the process. Once again the Tylenol and Motrin cleared the fever. Caden was home in bed by 11PM last night. He will be going back in to the pediatrician today for them to track his progress and to possibly get another antibiotic injection.
I got Caden up early this morning for a breathing treatment and a diaper change. He is doing okay this morning, but he is very clingy and whiny. I gave him some Motrin to head off any possible fever. The congestion associated with this has also required a bunch of suctioning.
Please pray for our little boy’s healing and comfort.
I also want to request that you pray for Caden’s grandma. Sherry’s mom was told by the doctors that there was some kind of spot on one of her lungs. They are talking about a possible biopsy of the spot. I do not have all the details, but I will update with more later. Please pray for Darla and Caden.