Clayton's mucusitis seems to be subsiding and he has started to munch pretty good on Apple Jacks and Fruit Loops. Every now and again he drinks a little from the sippie cup, but not much. Today is the most he has been awake in days...Even so, he is notably depressed. Who wouldn't be? Even George is a little depressed from being in the hospital ALL week with Clayton. We alternate who gets to work and while we were both here Monday and Tuesday, it was my turn to work Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, so George was at the hospital losing his mind.
We did find out that the bacteria growing in his cultures from his white line over the past few days is a type of staph infection commonly found on the skin. Luckily, the infectious disease doctor referred to it as a "puny" infection and says they usually treat it with a combination of antibiotics. So right now we are looking at being in here until at least Monday. We'll see. So far, every day we're here our discharge date gets set back a day. For now we need to pray that the antibiotics wipe out the infection, because if they don't it will set everything back and mean he might possibly have to have a whole new central line placed.
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