Good (sorta) News!

This morning we found out that Jacob has a tummy bug that causes fevers.  That's good news because it's the easiest to treat of the options the team had been considering. It's sorta good news because tummy bugs are never fun.  It meant that yesterday when they started considering that as a possibility, we got put into an isolation situation.  Staff that entered the room had to wear yellow gowns and gloves.  It also meant that we had a private room last night.  Tom got a free bed to sleep in!

This tummy bug is a complication of the antibiotics from the first visit.  The antibiotics wiped out the good bugs from his system which allowed the bad bugs to grow. :( 

Jacob will not go home with isolation issues.  Now that they determined what is wrong, they started a new antibiotic to tackle the exact problem.  Good hand washing is the main thing in order to protect the rest of us.  For those of you who know about these things, C Diff is the culprit.

Jacob spiked a temp yesterday early evening.  Ibuprofen helped.  Around 8:30pm, I ended up getting a great nap while Tom and Jacob watched a movie.  Then we all slept hard from about 11:30pm to 3:30am.  Four consecutive hours... quite a treat!  After changing Jacob's sweaty bed, we all went back to sleep (off and on) until about 6:30am.  Then Jacob woke up with strong back pain.  We are guessing it is from sleeping so soundly on a hospital bed.  It seems slightly better now... at least now he is not crying from the pain.  He woke up from sound sleep with it.  That's never fun!

Last night we had Chelsea as our nurse for the first four hours and then Tonya took over for the rest of the night.  Both were great.  Now today we have Tracy who was our pre-op nurse on Feb 29 and the one who got us set up in the Heart Center on March 2.  At this point (well, I guess at any point!), familiar smiling faces are good!

I think we have now met all of the Cardio Vascular Nurse Practitioners; they are a GREAT team.  Dr. Yancy comes around each day; we like him a lot. In addition to the high value he adds to Jacob's medical treatment, we remember how he connected with Jocie on pre-op day and that he gave Zach (a medical student) a ride in a Riley wagon.  See Tom's pics for Jocie in the wagon with Tracy (our RN today) off to the side and a photo of Dr. Yancy & Zach, but no photo of Zach in the wagon. :)  It was a larger than normal wagon so it didn't bust and brought lots of smiles to everyone in pre-op that day!

Yesterday Dr. Turrentine came by.  Dr. Brown is on vacation/traveling to a meeting.  Dr. Turrentine is the surgeon who did Jacob's second surgery in May 1995.  Tom says that he looks the same as he remembers from all those years ago.  I was downstairs getting dinner when he came by.

That's about all we know for now.  Waiting for the rest of the docs to make rounds.  Haven't heard from NaNa & PawPaw yet... hope they are sleeping in.  After next to no nap yesterday, she probably slept hard last night.

Thanks for your continued prayers and encouragements.  We appreciate you!