February 23, 2012

As far as Clayton goes, the past couple of days have been a lot of this...

But while he has been sleeping, everyone else has been working to figure out what has been going on with him.  We know that his counts are low and that he has mucusitis, but we were stumped about the blood in his diaper.  Well everyone started to think that they had a handle on the blood in the diaper situation by attributing it to low platelets, but then ensued the battle of keeping his platelets up.  Clayton has had four platelet transfusions since Sunday! Four!
The next issue we are dealing with is infection.  They have been doing blood cultures on him since Tuesday and have had a bacteria growing in the culture from the white line of his Hickman.  We have started him on antibiotics for whatever possible bacteria that may be, but they have yet to identify it.  So for now, Clayton will probably keep sleeping, George will keep being bored, I will keep pretending to be Dr. House and the doctors will keep looking.

Oh yea, he did start munching on some apple jacks tonight!  Woot! Woot!

P.S. Anyone up for a game of Words With Friends is welcome to look us up! (mostly George because I entertain myself a little better than he does ; )