Luke had surgery at Primary Children's hospital on November 4th. He recovered well and was sent home on November 18th with a feeding tube and oxygen. We were home only 4 days when he started to stool blood. We rushed to the ER at 1:00 a.m. Thanksgiving morning. We only stayed at the hospital 13 hours and the blood was dissipating and his KUB (chest x-ray) and lab work looked good. So we went home, had Thanksgiving dinner at my mom's, and went to bed.
The next morning we were decorating the Christmas tree when the hospitalist called and let us know that Luke's blood culture was positive for a staph infection. I took Luke back to St. Luke's in Boise at 11:00 a.m. Luckily we caught the infection before it became too severe. If it had not been caught it would have likely infected Luke's new heart hardware (stitches and shunt) and required a repeat fixing surgery. We feel so blessed that the bloody stools happened and thus the blood cultures were taken.
With this third hospitalization they found that Luke's left renal vein to his liver had had a clot that had dissolved but that was where the bacteria had colonized. Luckily the liver was not damaged and the clot was gone. We are now on day 5 of antibiotics and have 9 more days to go. Luke is off his oxygen and eating with a bottle- no feeding tube! We can't wait to go home again and hope to stay there.
What a little sweetie! He and Alexa will have twin scars. :)
ReplyDeleteI love the blog idea, you can do it in all your free-time, right!?! You are amazing, Mabry, and little Luke is a champ too!
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad you wrote this up! I was in the dark until last week when Richelle filled me in on what has been happening!! You are all in our prayers!!
ReplyDeleteI am so happy that he is doing well. How are you doing? I can't believe that Luke is done with oxygen and his feeding tub. How did you get him to eat? Jordyn is never hungry. I need to know your seceret:)
ReplyDeleteI love that you're doing a blog. Hang in there, girl! I can't imagine...
ReplyDeleteYou're always in our thoughts and prayers! He is so precious.
Congrats on Luke! He's adorable-love that hair! He (and you and your family) will be in our prayers.
ReplyDeleteGood blogging sister! I love the family pict of post op. Cute baby. Much love, Leisha
ReplyDeleteMabry, you are all in my prayers. Thank you for posting this, I am anxious to read your updates. He is such a cute little guy! Love the pics too.
ReplyDeleteI still haven't met Luke but he seems like a champ. I hope you're all doing well. You guys are in my prayers.
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