I made another early appearance today hoping to catch the ENT Dr. Butler-no luck on a Saturday.
First some good news - white blood count is 16000 this morning - he is working overtime on the wbc production now - remember it was 300 a week ago - now we have antibiotics and wbc fighting the infection. The doctors are very encouraged by this.
His fever is still erratic -bouncing from 99 - 103 with some regularity; no big deal - its to be expected with Systemic Strep; the doctors are not concerned - keeping him on the chilled bed though.
The swelling in his neck went down by 50% but no further - the tissue infection here is serious and will take long time to get rid of it - its improved but has stalled - another CT Scan was done last night - waiting to talk with ENT Butler this morning about results this morning.
We have been having issues with respiratory - he has a mild case of pneumonia. His O2 saturation was being impaired but is now good. They have pumped a couple of pints of fluid off the lungs - using suction hourly to keep him clear. The infection is causing a lot of secretions in the lungs - as this infection is arrested, the fluids will stop.
This is going to be an protracted recovery - I have to come back on Sunday but Norma is coming tomorrow night. You can call her for updates on Stevens phone which she will all next week. -Mark
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