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| Tubes and wires |
Jereth spent today resting between blood draws. It is usually difficult to get an IV into him or to take blood from his veins. Several of the tests ordered today involved getting blood from a newly poked vein. The nurses have stopped trying to have the tech draw his blood, and even the phlebotomy team hesitates to try getting blood from his veins. Since there are very few places where veins that could be used haven't already been damaged from trying (and sometimes succeeding) to draw blood, our nurses have started just calling the IV team right away. More pictures of his pokes and IV's are at the end of the post.
He won the heart of his nurse with his pleasant disposition, placid acceptance of all the pokes and prods, and the way he babbles and sings.
The viral panel came back negative for all of the viruses they tested for, including RSV. Since the RSV test can give a false negative early in the course of the illness they are testing again just to be sure. It makes a big difference to the cardiologists whether or not he has RSV when they determine how long to postpone the surgery. For many illnesses Jereth should only have to wait a couple of weeks, but if he has RSV it will be a minimum wait of six weeks.
His fever has been up and down today, mostly down as long as he gets his Tylenol before the previous dose has worn off. Doctors are frustrated they can't find the reason for the fevers. More tests will be done tomorrow.
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| IV in left arm |
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| IV in head |
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| Lots of tries to draw blood |
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