Monday, December 5, 2022

Recovery Day 49

7 weeks! So I haven't updated since last week because it's hard to know how to update. He's not horrible. But he's not well. 


So last Tuesday Alan went to the ER at MDA at Dr. Fournier's insistence that morning. They took blood, urine, CT Scans. The thing we were hoping for happened, a minor infection was found! It was just an UTI and he was getting kicked outta there! Praise Jesus! I had run home to take Audrey and I to our appointments that couldn't be moved. After those were done, I met Rebekah so she could take Audrey home and I could race back to the med center to pick him up. 


BUT on the way down Alan called, the radiologist had seen an irregularity on the CT Scans and was going to discuss it with Dr. F before Alan could be released. So I didn't have to race as fast now since we were in a hold pattern. 


After I got back, Dr. F came by and explained. The radiologist had noted fluid and air in his pelvis. This is not uncommon post-MOAS he explained. So we were going to get the UTI handled and then if he didn't feel better in 24 hours we needed to let them know. We got home about 10 pm. Long, long day! But we were grateful. 


Today was his two week follow up with Wound on his bedsore and follow up with Dr. You on the fat necrosis that is still seeping from drain site she had in him before release. It worked well for her to also follow up on the ER visit. 


So Wednesday through last night, Alan was on Cipro for the UTI. But every day the same thing happened, he acted like the little kid he really is! Like most moms know, your child will be fine ALL day long, even appear to be getting well and then as soon as the doctor's office closes and night starts to fall, BAM they have a fever out of nowhere. Yep, that was Alan night after night for the past week, starting at 5 to 5:30, his chills would return, his temp would start slowly rising. He was due for Tylenol at 8 but we would wait until 9ish to see how high it would get over that hour. He would top out around 100 and then take Tylenol and go back down. Around 5 am he would wake up dripping with sweat and his fever having broken. So we have been very confused as to whether this was just the UTI being a really bad one or the fluid being an issue too. 


Wound was wonderfully helpful today. They were able to remove all the dead skin from his bed sore. We have another treatment to use in this phase of the healing process. Today's nurse set a follow up for the 19th but has hopes we will be able to cancel it!


Dr. Y had called while we were driving down. She had a conflict come up at our appointment time so she asked we come straight over from wound and ask them to page her. We did and were seen really quick. 


She didn't like that he was still running the temp in the evenings. She ran another urinalysis which is better but not well yet! She put him on Cipro again and another antibiotic to finish off the infection!


She is concerned about the fluid because it's more than they would expect. So she is getting him set up with Interventional Radiology to have the fluid drained. Not sure how soon this will be set up or what all it entails, but I'm sure we will find out soon!


I'll keep you all informed as we move forward along the path of this second setback in a week. 

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