Early yesterday morning William spiked a fever of 101.5, as per protocol we immediately took him into the clinic for lab work and antibiotics. Initial blood work showed that William was neutropenic (as expected), a little dehydrated and extremely low on his platelets. Our visit to the clinic started uneventful but 2 hours into his antibiotics he spiked a fever of 103.5. The doctor admitted William for observation, more blood tests, hydration, transfusions and fever control. By 7pm last night William’s temperature hit 104, his blood pressure went extremely low and his heart beat shot up to the 150’s.
No one got any real sleep last night as our room was constantly filled with doctors and nurses. William had a lot of people on high alert last night, I am just grateful for the extremely friendly, kind, and funny doctor that was on call. Dr. Armenian managed to crack several smiles on William’s face, a task that was almost impossible last night. Anyway, lets skip several hours ahead and make a long story short, William’s blood culture came back positive for gram-negative_bacteria.This morning the doctor told us that the bacteria is most likely from an infection in the gut (such as e-coli) The bacteria had spread into his blood stream causing sepsis. Sepsis is basically a whole body infection – feel free to Google it. I don’t like Wikki’s description so I am not posting it.
William’s BP, heart rate and temperate all normalized around 9am today, and then just as we all started to relax, this afternoon around 3 William started having chills again and spiked another fever of 103.5.
Next Friday Randell will be coming down to spent the weekend with us. In celebration of William’s birthday we are all supposed to go to Lego Land on Saturday – Unfortunately, William’s current hospitalization will last at least 10 days…..I really don’t want to tell William that his birthday party will be postponed/cancelled. I really don’t want to break the horrible news to him, he is going to be devastated.
This is William's journey and we will Keep on Keepin on' and Live Strong with God in our hearts and courage in our soul!
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