It has been a long time! I can't believe it has been 2 months! I will try to fill in the blanks and get back on track. Our computer has been broken for a couple months. I can't wait to get back into blogging :)
Here we go . . .
May 2012
April 30th-May7th
Owen was hospitalized for a line infection. I already talked about this visit in my last post so I won't go into detail. I just want to share a picture :)
such a funny kid :)
9th
We got home just in time for mothers day! For mother's day Owen's Miracle delivered mother's day bracelets to Oakland Children's Hospital and Doctors Hospital in Modesto
Ready to deliver those bracelets! Such a big boy helping us!
10th-27th
We had some wonderful time at home!
Speech therapy . . .
Mother's Day Parade . . .
Bath time. . .
Park Adventures . . .
Just Relaxing . . .
Shopping . . .
Eating. . .
And Building . . .
28th
Back to the hospital :(
Doctor Check ups . . .
Owen had another fever :( Three different bacteria grew in his first culture. However, even after 24hours of antibiotics, Owen was still having very high fever spikes every 4-6 hours. His fevers were unusually high, going as high as 105! He has a history of febrile seizures at fevers that high, expecially when they go up fast so it was pretty scary to me. He continued to have these fever spikes for the next 4 days. It was very frustrating to know that he was covered with antibiotics but still so sick. His second and third blood cultures came back negative for any infection. The doctors believed he didn't truly have a blood infection but instead, a virus. It got so bad that he got a rash all over his body from the virus.
June 2012
iphones are essential for passing the time away in the hospital :)
Isaiah came to visit . . . we were missing him by the middle of the week!
He couldn't stay long (Owen was in isolation and not supposed to have any visitors under 18) thanks to the nurse who looked the other way for a couple hours!
4th
Owen was going to be dischared! We were very excited. While waiting for his TPN to be completed, I began to pack up our things. I guess Owen was excited to leave and wanted to help because, while I was turned away, he got up off the window seat and began to walk towards me. While walking, his IV tubing got caught up in the wheel of his IV pole and pulled on his broviac site! It was terrible and scared me to death! I called the nurse and the docs ordered an x-ray to see if the broviac was still in the right place to administer TPN and antibiotics. The x-ray showed that it was pulled too far. He would need surgery :( Since the broviac could no longer be used, Owen needed an IV for IV fluids and the antibiotics he was still on. On June 5th Owen went into surgery to have another broviac placed.
Recovery room . . .
6th
Owen was discharged! and we added another surgery bear to his stash
I will save the rest of June for tomorrow's post :)
