Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Line infection #4 + Rhinovirus

Looks like I jinxed us. Within 2 days of celebrating Kenji being infection free...he gets hit with a fever of 102 and we were off to the ER at 3am. Kenji was admitted Saturday and we're still here. We're at Levine's this time. His blood cultures were positive for Staph and he has Rhino (common cold virus). He's currently being treated with antibiotics. His culture from the 20th is still positive so doesn't look like we'll be home this week. In the meantime, the doctors here are also trying to figure out why he has low blood sugar. Killing two birds with one stone? Lol. So, what they did was, let his sugar drop and draw labs then hook him back up to his tpn. Latest update is that not all results are in but one of the problems is, his body doesn't make enough/any cortisol (the stress hormone). That result will be further tested. Is the brain not telling the body to make cortisol or is the body not making it? Hopefully we get it all figured out during our stay here.

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