Thursday, December 21, 2006
After the debate of a central line yesterday, I still wasn't sure if that was the right decision but my gut feeling was to wait. At around 2:30 this afternoon Dr. Bunin came into our room and said "Good News! Jack has C-diff". Now most people would cringe and be very upset but this was truely "Music to my ears". Clostridium Difficile (not sure of the spelling) is something we are very familiar with. Jack has had at least 16 bouts of this and it pretty much goes along with any infection he had. C-diff is an infection that takes away the "good" bacteria in your gut and makes you have smelly, awful watery stools. Jack's bowel movements haven't been that awful, but bad enough, so last night I asked if they could run a c-diff culture and low and behold it came back positive. This answers a lot of questions for us. Jack is wasting his electrolytes by all of his stool output and also anything we put in his stomach, i.e. formula, food, med's are just not being absorbed properly because of the c-diff. So now we start flagel, which is an oral medication used to help clear this up. Hopefully if all goes well, the flagel will kick in and it will help his gut feel better and maybe, just maybe we may even escape getting a line next week. If his gut gets better and he starts to feel better, the food and formula may start to stick and with God's help he will start to gain weight again. I am praying very hard.
Thank you for the prayers and this may be the start of our Christmas miracle.
This is Jack's favorite Christmas song, please enjoy!!!
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