Nov

After another mostly sleepless night, Cardinal Glennon called us this morning, saying that Will’s blood had cultured a certain bacteria overnight, and that they really wanted us to bring him back to the Emergency Room.

So we’re back, and they’ve popped another IV into his scalp to draw more blood, but also to sedate him so they can draw fluid directly from the hip joint for further testing.  At this point, their concern is that the bacteria they found in his blood will (or may already have) migrated into his hip socket fluid, causing an infection that could damage the joint.  They just hooked him up to all sorts of monitors, and have him under an X-ray table that they’ll use to guide them during the extraction, which should take just a few moments.  The scariest thing is, of course, the risks associated with anesthetizing an eight-week-old baby.

The doctors are working on him now.  Best case scenario is that they’ll admit him and administer IV antibiotics all night.  Worst case scenario is that they’ll have to do surgery on his hip to clear out the infection.  There are lots of possibilities in between.  Every one of them is frightening to us.

You can find more pictures here.

More later.

Written by Gordy |