Reagan :01 / The Meningitis Monster :00
As of the start of this blog, Reagan has been sick for six days now, but continues to get better as the antibiotics’ course through his tiny baby veins. Reagan has a rare strain of meningitis and seems to have been put under control for now. With every heal prick his blood tests come back a little better and a little better. Though with his rapid progress and seemingness to be on the up side of things there is still no telling when we will be leaving this rest stop for the sick. I was figuring early next week due to his quickness to heal; a
social worker had a different idea when we would be leaving though. Yesterday this social worker came by to see us and to ask more questions than I thought she needed to know the answers to, but to please her, because Sarah was in the shower, I answered the questions. And then she proceeded to tell me that my little boy who was so close to death five days earlier was getting out tomorrow (now today). My jaw dropped; this morning (now yesterday) the CDC Dr. told me two weeks minimum for him to be here for treatment and could be longer just to be on the safe side. “Um yeah my son has bacterial meningitis, I am pretty sure they are not letting him leave this hospital until his treatments are complete.” “I’ll have to check because it says he is leaving.” “He wont be leaving, just find the CDC Dr. she knows what is going on.” “Okay well we will see you guys latter.” So yeah we are still here and will be here till at least the 17th maybe till Christmas still. Yesterday evening after Reagan woke up for the night, that’s right he has his days and night flip flopped he wakes up about nine and is up till three or four, we went down for an MRI on his brain. This morning when I awoke to the CDC Dr. coming in the room and my eyes adjusted to the lack of sleep, I saw on the Parent Notes board, MRI: NORMAL. Thank god. The CDC Dr. assured us (well Sarah was still sleeping) that there seemed to be no brain damage and she is sure that he will make a great recovery. Viridans Streptococcus couldn’t keep him down, there is anything going to keep him down now.
This morning I wanted coffee so bad I could taste it… well I couldn’t taste but I wanted to. Shortly after Sarah got up I went down to the cafeteria to take a gander at the coffee booth thing stacked full of three dollar coffees. I got one for Sarah and one for me; if we didn’t have to stay here for another week or so I would have thrown it at them. Sun Cruz has better tasting coffee and its free. Most of the food down there is pretty good but their coffee really needs a Folgers boost!!
The neurologist just came in and said everything is looking great and that she wants to keep him on his ant seizure medications for the whole treatment just to make sure everything has cleared his system and will be okay.
Reagan is back to being a little piggy and wants to feed all the time, now the midwife at
Sarah’s doctors office said that was fine and that she should try to feed him when he wants and that would help her make more milk to appease his growing appetite. Plus as long as he is peeing and pooping; he is getting enough and there is no need to supplement him with anything else.
Well we have lots of people to call and to fill in about how much better he is doing now.
Again thank you everyone for you prayers.
Michael Trump a happy father
This was at home before he got sick… more pictures soon to come.
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