I am sorry for not updating here but I have been text messaging people but I guess here is the best place to keep you all updated. I am copying all the messages I have sent and will update everytime I have fresh news!
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Saturday Evening:
He has had very very high fevers 40ºC and above so he was addmited for xray, blood work and urine. His blood work came back with some kind of infection, a bacterial one - unknown - possibly menigitis (sp). So we are in Hospital for the next 3 days and I will keep you all posted.
BTW - The good news is that our room has Internet access!
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UPDATE 1: (sunday morning) Well, the night was crap.. my poor poor baby. I had a break down episode - just exploded in tears which did him no good either but it was just to much stress acumulated. His fever is under control because he has been taking fever medicine every 3h. His anthibiotics are taken only ever 24h so not much to say on his improvment specially because he has only had one dosage. He is very unhappy and cries most of the time. My heart is the size of a pea as of now. I really dont know what to do. I just feel so helpless. Anway we will have more blood results tommorow morning because the ones missing take longer. As of now we are ruling out menigites (sp) - only on Tuesday we will know if he needs to remove fluid from his spine to test for it. I hope not - I really dont think he has menigites and mummy gut feeling has to count for something, right? LOL! So not really that much to update. Just feeling very sorry for my poor baby and for myself, I guess.
Thank you all for you thoughts.
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UPDATE 2: Sunday night - His blood work came back and thankfully the reults are indeed slighty better. Our aim at this point was simply for them not to be worse. Still don know what kind of bacteris it is but we will be getting more results tommorow. Bad news is they suspect he has a stomach bug too so they checked his poop for analysis and to check for virus. Good news is he smiled a few times and finally made some eye contact.
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UPDATE 3:Monday morning - Another crappy night but not as bad as the night before. Vicente has been withou a fever for the past 12h now!!! Happy about that. He woke up this motning all smiles and has been a happy and comunicative baby this morning. Happy about that too. Not to happy about the virus he now has on top of it all. He has bronchiolitis (sp) again so we start breathing therapy today. There goes my hope to go back home. We have been told maybe just maybe tommorow. Menigitis is now ruled out so that is a big relief but I knew it wasnt that. So now all we need is for him to start breathing properly and to find out what kind of bacteris he has.
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UPDATE 4: (Monday Evening) Well... the fever is back. Just like that, without a warning it just came right back and high too. He has been so happy and smily today so why is the fever back? I am so shocked and sad. So now the docs say it could have just been a fever spurt and if in the next 12 hours he is fever free, then thats all it was. If he does coninue with fever then it means the medicine isnt working as expected and we will have to dig in further - whatever that means. Besides all of this I have been negleting my food intake so I had a colapse this afternoon due to very low blood presure. So now I have a nurse forcing food down me. Oh, and one more thing - so we are in probably the best private Hospital in the country (which insurance will only cover up to 3 days - but thats a whole new story). So this feels like a Hotel and it has an amazing huge window with a very surprising view - The cemetery! I just LOL each time I look out the window, I mean a top noch institution could have afford a place with a different view!
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UPDATE 5:(Tuesday morning) - Unfortunately it wasnt a fever spurt. his fever is def. back. Every 6h it raises straight up and only comes down with appropriate medication. I really dont know what to think now. He obviously wasnt released today and we have already been told no such luck for tommorow. I dont want him released until we figure out what is wrong with him so im fine with that. The urine sample is still being "cultured" all samples that have gone to culture we still dont know any results. I think everyone is in a guessing game now - like it might be a virus on top of the bacterial infection or it might just be that the anthibiotic is so generic that its not working where its supposed to etc... I know I shouldnt search the Internet but I would love some answers.
Wednesday, 17 December 2008
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Oi amiga,
estamos ansiosos à espera de boas notícias do Vicente. Vais ver que melhora num instante. Coragem. Um beijo grande da Sandra, João, Margarida e Alexandre
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