Sunday, December 10, 2006 - Day +211

I spent some quality time with Christina yesterday, which was much needed for both of us. We did a little Christmas shopping for gifts for their teachers and went for diner at this BBQ place call "Famous Dave's" and it was awesome and then we went back to the Ronald McDonald House and watched "Pirates of the Carribean". We hung out this morning, cleaned up our room and then came back here to the hospital and spent time with Daddy and Jack before she and daddy decided it was time to go back home.

So here's the scoop. We finally got a name for the bug that caused this awful infection and yesterday we found out what antibiotic it's sensitive to. We found that there are 2 oral antibiotics that can treat this bug and now we are waiting on Dr. Bunin and the Infectious Disease Team to decide which one and how long they still want to treat with IV antibiotics and then switch to oral to send us home.

One of the other issues we discussed before the weekend was why this is happening so frequently and what are we going to do to help prevent these crazy infections from continuing to happen and it was decided that Jack would start getting IVIG's every two weeks opposed to every 4. By getting the IVIG's every 2 weeks it will help his T and B cell function to help fight infection and hopefully help keep him from getting these infections. This bug that gave him the infection was explained to me that it lives in the guts of all of us. We, who have normal functioning immune systems have the ability to fight off these bugs if they get into our blood stream but with Jack or someone who has a compromised immune system the IVIG's may be the only way to help ward off these bugs until their immune system is able to do it on it's own. So that's the game plan all we need is for Jack to behave to prayers are definitely needed.

As always, Thank You for keeping us in your thoughts and prayers.

[Help Others} with all the strength and energy that God supplies. (1 Peter 4:11)