The Sound of His Life (Day 16)

Monday, October 17, 2011
Day 16


I walked into Hazaiah's little room today and found him all snuggled up and resting comfortably. Taking a quick glance at all the numbers on his monitors, I rested slightly, seeing they all looked good for now. I had time to find his little fingers and sing him a song before the nurse came in...
"Has he had a bowel movement yet?" I asked expectantly.
"No, not yet," she replied, "I gave him some glycerin but it still didn't work."
"What about his breathing?" I asked again, "Has he desatted at all through the night or this morning?"
"Yes, he did a couple times," she said, "It's always during our touch-time when I evaluate him and change his diaper. But this last time I turned up his oxygen before we started and he did much better."
Then the doctor came in. "Well, not much has changed with him," she said, "His breathing rates are about the same, and he still hasn't moved his bowels. We'd like you to talk to your husband and see what day this week would work for us to all have a meeting about where to go from here... We'll be here all week; you can just let us know tomorrow..."
I nodded, and she left...
I turned back to my baby then, and continued singing, talking, and holding his hand... Some tears fell as I sang "God will take care of you", and several others... 
After a while the nurse came in again and turned up his oxygen, "I'm getting ready to do his assestment," she said. 
I watched as she changed his diaper- but there was still no poo.
"He sure knows how to tee-tee though!" she exclaimed, "He can fill up those diapers- his kidneys are working great!" 
She gave me his syringe of milk to hold as it flowed down through his feeding tube. I had just finished pumping, so she used the fresh milk and he got it right away.:) As she went out to get something else for him, she turned her head and said, "Can you get me his temperature when you're done?"
His temp was fine- 36.9c...:)
He was resting well, and it was time for the children's visiting hours, so I left to go get the girls...
As soon as we came back, the nurse came in with another guy following behind her...
"The blood culture we took yesterday, because of the fever, came back," she said, "It showed positive for staph infection... We need to get another test done to be sure it wasn't contaminated, but it came back in less than 24 hours, so that is usually a more serious sign..."


Staph infection... That can be from anything, and it can be mild or extremely severe...
Then the nurse told me that the staph infection could be the reason he is having so many secretions, and it could be the reason he is having more apnoea spells lately...


Sometimes it seems like everything causes everything, and we won't ever really know what is causing what...