Tuesday, May 5, 2009

*sigh* Monday's are not my favorite lately

So here we are Monday again.....and Joshua is BACK in the hospital.
We had to go get labs today and we were asked to stop in at clinic again today to follow up from last weeks little admission. They looked at him on Friday too and just wanted to keep a close eye on him. He had a great weekend. My mom and Trevor were here to pick up my dad and drop off Theresa for the week. Joshua LOVED seeing them and played with Trevor. Trevor decided that he was going to sleep on the floor by Joshua's crib last night. Long after Trevor fell asleep Joshua was still there smiling and blowing brother kisses! It was the best. :)
Anyway, we saw Dr Law (for the first time since our 4-10 discharge. (It was very nice to see him again.) Well Joshua appeared a little wet again. We had decreased his diuretics again on Friday and upped his Cyclo. He was still producing tears and had a wet mouth so even though his wet diapers took a little decrease I wasn't too worried. He was acting just fine. Dr Law also wanted an xray. He told me to go get labs, then the xray and then come back to the clinic so he could tell me the results. Well his xray was maybe a smidgen better but nothing to write home about. Dr Law decided (at that point) to write Joshua a prescription for Sodium and then follow up with us tomorrow. Well in the time that he had finished the script and got to the room we were in the labs had came back...THANK GOD! I knew by the look on Dr Law's face the news was not good and I shouldn't expect to go anywhere any time too soon. I joked with him about knowing before he opened his mouth. A talent that comes from seeing the same doctor every single day for several months! :) The labs showed that his sodium was low (125), BUN (mid to high 80's...I can't remember exact #) and creatin (0.7) were up, even more from last week. This combination puts Joshua at very high risk for seizures and renal failure, so he was admitted. Dr Law didn't know what the immediate plan was going to be. He did say that we would stop the Cyclo because heart rejection at this point in time was the least of the worries. If he starts to reject we will deal with that later. He changed the diuretics and changed some of the heart meds. He is going to go up on the Diltiizem, stopping the Captoprill and starting doing something with IV fluids.
Please keep Joshua in your prayers as we work through all of this. Very scary stuff.
Blessings,
Leah

3 comments:

mrsrubly said...

thinking about ya'll this morning. i pray that his numbers start stabilizing.

Katie said...

Praying for Joshua here! Hang in there Leah...

Anonymous said...

Leah, We will be praying. Thankyou for the update.
Lois