Yesterday Jereth came down with a fever. Preliminary blood tests indicate that he has some kind of infection. The blood culture takes 24 - 48 hours for results to come back. Cultures that can be done more rapidly have come back negative, so we don't know what he's fighting, but they have him on antibiotics.
Since we won't be heading home anytime soon he's back on the heated and humidified high-flow air system instead of the 100% oxygen he had yesterday. His lung looks about the same today as yesterday.
He will start working with a speech therapist to see what it will take to get him taking a bottle again. The first step is a swallow study which will be late this morning.
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