Morning Post --
They ran tests all night. Very long night! The ER was crazy last night. They were so busy and short on staff. Most things were not serious so Samuel was given priority. We haven't heard any results yet. There is no phone service in the ER. At 5:30 am, they finally gave me a chair. At 7:00 they moved us to the floor. Samuel is on the 8th floor, which is "Silver Trauma" with all the senior citiz...ens. I slept from 7:30-9:00. At 9:00, they started him on Cefapeme, Vancomycin, and Flucon, all IV antibiotics. They are trying to attack the infection from every angle, even before we know what it is. The cultures will take a long time to grow and determine what kind of an infection it is. We are hoping they will be by with the CT scan results soon. They are concerned that the JP drain has migrated again. He was scheduled for surgery on the 8th to replace all the tubes and to try and down size that JP drain and start backing it out again. Now I am not sure what they will do. He is not allowed to eat or drink anything because he may be going to surgery. We don't know anything else really. On a good note, he now weighs 105 pounds, which means he has gained 25 pounds!! I will post another update when we know more. Thank you for praying for Samuel.
Evening Post --
It has been a long day. Tomorrow Samuel will be having another surgery. We don’t know what time yet because we are waiting to hear from anesthesia. It will be a long procedure. Apparently Samuel has an infection in his kidneys and that may be what is causing the fever. They have decided to move forward with the surgery because by morning he will be on IV meds for a full 24 hours and several o...f the tubes and not working properly today. There is talk that they may try to remove the JP drain and see if he can tolerate it. We don’t have the final results from the blood work and cultures yet though, so I guess that could change things. Please continue to pray for Samuel. I will post more tomorrow. Good night!
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