{"id":22469,"date":"2018-05-05T23:50:19","date_gmt":"2018-05-06T06:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/?p=22469"},"modified":"2018-05-05T23:56:12","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T06:56:12","slug":"year-7-week-28-day-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/2018\/05\/05\/year-7-week-28-day-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 7 – Week 28 – Day 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

Twelve nights in the hospital so far and not really an end in sight. He has now been inpatient longer than when he had his heart surgery. <\/p>\n

The consensus among all the doctors is that he was exposed to the haemophilus influenzae bacteria and got “community acquired pneumonia”. There are many kids in the hospital now with the same illness. They all believe that getting him to the ER when I did was lucky, all of his other issues just kind of added up to the pain that Brendan was feeling. They were able to start the right antibiotic immediately. The Infectious Disease Team doctor said that this bacteria could have made him way worse very quickly if I had waited longer. Brendan is improving slowly, but it will take months before he is back to 100%. We just need to figure out when he can come home. They suspect that the infection is the cause of his low albumin, but they will not be able to investigate that until he is better. Bill and I continue to alternate sleeping at the hospital or sleeping at home with Trevor. Bill goes in to the office as much as he can. Now that school has resumed, it will mean Trevor won’t have to spend so much time at the hospital.<\/p>\n

Several doctors and nurses say that Brendan’s scans and bloodwork don’t match what they see when they examine Brendan in person. He has several spans of time through the day when he seems pretty well and that seems to be when the doctor always comes in. He always has lots of time where he is crying, sore, and just wants to go home.<\/p>\n

I don’t usually take pictures like this, but sometimes the photos on the blog don’t paint a complete picture. Brendan cries a lot every day from all of the handling, poking, disturbing his sleep, and just plain soreness he feels everywhere.
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I put this video in just to show how swollen he was. He was like a marshmallow version of Brendan
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