Good morning! Today we all head home...again! Austin has had a great couple days! On Monday, Austin's sensitivities came back from the positive blood cultures on Friday morning. Dr. Greene switched his antibiotic to one that is slightly less broad and a little more narrow to target the 2 specific bacterias that were positive. Austin will go home on IV antibiotics...oh boy, another new thing for Mom and Dad to learn! I promise, neither of us are going back to nursing school!
Dr. Kevan stopped in Monday evening...GI is status quo! We have every reason to believe the budesonide is doing what we want it to, now we just need to give it some time!
Only other thing to update is the need for oxygen while sleeping. Austin has actually required more oxygen over the last few days than last week. We spoke with Dr. Greene about this and she wasn't surprised. She explained that he had a very nasty virus and pneumonia for an extended period of time. That alone takes about 4 weeks to totally recover and then he got the blood infection. Oxygen is carried in the blood so it would make sense this set him back a little. Great news is....lungs are crystal clear! He just needs more recovery time....so oxygen it is!
We are anxious to get home! Thank you so much for all your messages, thoughts and prayers! You certainly are a powerful bunch! Love to all!
Hugs,
Tara and Brian
Max and Austin
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