Day #4

Today was a better day, although we limited him to what he could do just as precaution. We didn't want him to have a repeat of yesterday. He's been coughing a ton more today and it is very painful for him. He gets coughing so hard and continuously that he has a hard time breathing. The Dr. didn't order any lab work today or any x-rays, but its all ordered for tomorrow morning. Chad spent the afternoon with him while I went home and got some rest in my own bed :) My dear sweet brother and sister in law watched Cierra and Cain for us. Not only did that allow for me to get some sound rest, it allowed Chad to spend a little one on one with CeJae for more than just an hour. While I was gone he did great and then right before I came back up he got a really bad headache and started to get achy again, so they gave him some more Motrin. That allowed for him to get comfortable enough to fall asleep. When I got back he was asleep, but had a really bad cold sweat thing going on. When he woke up he ate a little dinner and then got to go take his first bath since being admitted. It did him wonders. He had so much fun! So that he could bathe without worrying about his IV they taped it up and put a latex glove with the fingers cut out over it. When he got back to the room after his bath they went to hook him back up to his IV and that's when they discovered that his IV had a kink in the catheter and unfortunately they had to take it out. They called the Dr. to see if they could start the antibiotics orally, so that they could avoid having to give him another IV. The Dr. said he was not ready to be without the IV and that they needed to give him another one. This time it was a little more traumatic for him. Not only did he know what was going to happen, but they had to poke him twice. He had what the nurse called "disappearing veins". He's ate two popsicles since getting his IV and seems to be doing very good. He's in very high spirits this evening. I really hope we get some really good news tomorrow with the labs and the x-rays. We know that the last Protein Reactive test that was done he was a 26 and the normal level is under 1. We have a ways to go with that one. I just want to Thank everyone that has been praying for us and I want to send out a special thank you to Lela Miller for cooking my husband and other two children dinner last night (they said it was delicious) and I want to send a special thank you to Keith, Mandi, and Brandyn for watching Cierra and Cain while I slept. Thank you Jill for the visit, although he was a little out of it he does remember you being here and he loves his Batman. Keep you fingers crossed and the prayers going.