Let's see...where did we leave off? Had his WBC count gone up and he had been started back on the 2 antibiotics? Had they restarted the TPN?
The night after the procedure to put in the stent he vomited all night and began running a temperature. And he had a loose cough. A chest x-ray showed a pleural effusion. They gave him Zofran for the nausea, but his stomach still felt full, and he had no appetite.
Over the weekend they added lipids along with his TPN. I'm not sure why they hadn't done that before, since previously he had gotten both.
On Monday, his temp went up to 102, and he threw up again all night. I think it was Monday that they did another paracentesis. This time they got EIGHT liters of fluid from his abdomen! He told me that before the procedure he felt like his belly was going to explode. A culture of the fluid came back negative for infection, which is good.
Unfortunately, his belly has already begun to get bigger, but it did make his breathing easier and him just feel better in general to get rid of all that.
On Tuesday, they cultured him for the C. Diff. bowel infection again (it came back positive today), so they added Flagyl for that.
Today (Wednesday) they took Isaac to insert the feeding tube, and this time they gave him some sedation before hand, which made it much nicer for him. His spirits are good, and he went for a long walk with us this evening.
Margaret said a Dr. Cheng told him that his case of pancreatitis is worse than 80% of cases, and that there is still a long way to go before he will be well.
This is what my gram posted. jut wanted to let you know. seems like its still going to be a while b4 he is recovered.
The night after the procedure to put in the stent he vomited all night and began running a temperature. And he had a loose cough. A chest x-ray showed a pleural effusion. They gave him Zofran for the nausea, but his stomach still felt full, and he had no appetite.
Over the weekend they added lipids along with his TPN. I'm not sure why they hadn't done that before, since previously he had gotten both.
On Monday, his temp went up to 102, and he threw up again all night. I think it was Monday that they did another paracentesis. This time they got EIGHT liters of fluid from his abdomen! He told me that before the procedure he felt like his belly was going to explode. A culture of the fluid came back negative for infection, which is good.
Unfortunately, his belly has already begun to get bigger, but it did make his breathing easier and him just feel better in general to get rid of all that.
On Tuesday, they cultured him for the C. Diff. bowel infection again (it came back positive today), so they added Flagyl for that.
Today (Wednesday) they took Isaac to insert the feeding tube, and this time they gave him some sedation before hand, which made it much nicer for him. His spirits are good, and he went for a long walk with us this evening.
Margaret said a Dr. Cheng told him that his case of pancreatitis is worse than 80% of cases, and that there is still a long way to go before he will be well.
This is what my gram posted. jut wanted to let you know. seems like its still going to be a while b4 he is recovered.