Update on the Hospital stay

My fuzzy Panda Bear in the PICU. Wishes he could be home.

Well Dylan was worked off the By-pap by the end of Wednesday night and then as soon as he was off he spiked a fever. Oh man what I thought was bad was just getting worse. They did all sorts of tests and found out that he had Influenza Type A, which I was told was just a flu but in most cases the secondary test usually say that it is H1N1. Well his test results finally came back and he did in fact have H1N1. :( My little baby was frying up just like his sister did almost 2 week before. We couldn't give him anything except Tylenol, because of the surgery he had. So we were giving him Lora-tab and Tylenol every so often but even all that his fever still raged on. This whole time we had been in the ICU and we had to be isolated and everything. It was so not fun. They keep a close eye on his left lung and so they had taken a few x-rays to make sure his lungs were getting better. Come to find out that he had pneumonia also. Can things possibly get any worse? well we were finally moved out of ICU on Saturday October 31st to the floor. :) Yeah that means we are a few steps closer to going home. So now he is not drinking so his output is really bad. They had to finally stick in with a IV after a few days without one since his IV's go bad so easy. The only place that they could find was in his head, because he is so hard to place an IV in. Well after 12 oz. of fluid on top of what he has been drinking his output is still really really really bad and his IV won't flush so I am not sure what they are going to do but I do know that if he doesn't drink we can't go home. He has got to keep himself hydrated in order to stay out if the hospital, but I am not sure if he know that. He finally had a little over 8 oz. by mouth which is great! That is a whole heck of a lot better then he was doing. I am glad that he didn't throw up yesterday since he has been doing that lately. I just hope that we can go home before too long I miss my other children also and I know that they miss us too.

This was Wednesday evening. He had just came off of the by-pap and this was right before the fever.