Day +9
Another day, another fever.
Max received a few blow-bys of oxygen last night and today when sleeping. His saturation # dropped no lower than 89 and came up quickly with the oxygen. He ate well at lunch, and Dr. Tolar said it is remarkable he is eating at all.
I am not sure if we reported this before, but Max now has a few white blood cells, On Thursday he had .2, on Friday he dropped to .1 and today he had .5. It is normal to have some fluctuation with cord blood. Dr. Tolar did not want to make too much of the numbers just yet. And they don't know if Max is growing the cells of the donor or if his body is growing its own cells again. They will test for this at about day +21, they may be able to test sooner if his numbers are high.
This evening Max woke up from his nap with a fever again (or as Grace says, a favor). He threw up when I was trying to give him Tylenol. They tested for blood in the vomit again and it came back negative. He started breathing pretty fast for a while and then he turned red almost all over his body. They are attributing it to the antibiotic he started yesterday, and now he will get pre-meds to prevent this. This means I will have to wake him up for them and I hope he isn't too mad at me. He must have been feeling better tonight because he was laughing and playing with the respiratory therapist.
Thanks so much for your prayers and words of encouragement.
-Margaret
Max received a few blow-bys of oxygen last night and today when sleeping. His saturation # dropped no lower than 89 and came up quickly with the oxygen. He ate well at lunch, and Dr. Tolar said it is remarkable he is eating at all.
I am not sure if we reported this before, but Max now has a few white blood cells, On Thursday he had .2, on Friday he dropped to .1 and today he had .5. It is normal to have some fluctuation with cord blood. Dr. Tolar did not want to make too much of the numbers just yet. And they don't know if Max is growing the cells of the donor or if his body is growing its own cells again. They will test for this at about day +21, they may be able to test sooner if his numbers are high.
This evening Max woke up from his nap with a fever again (or as Grace says, a favor). He threw up when I was trying to give him Tylenol. They tested for blood in the vomit again and it came back negative. He started breathing pretty fast for a while and then he turned red almost all over his body. They are attributing it to the antibiotic he started yesterday, and now he will get pre-meds to prevent this. This means I will have to wake him up for them and I hope he isn't too mad at me. He must have been feeling better tonight because he was laughing and playing with the respiratory therapist.
Thanks so much for your prayers and words of encouragement.
-Margaret
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