Saturday, February 25, 2012

Another hospital visit

Well, we've been back in the hospital since early Sunday morning. We were visiting family in St. George when we discovered Rowan had a fever of 101.1, so we rushed back to vegas to discover that he had an infection in his broviac line. They've been giving him antibiotics, but the bacteria has developed an immunity, so the two different antibiotics they've tried are not working. Our pediatrician just spoke with our surgeon, and they have decided to take out the broviac line. He will have a normal iv line for about a week while they get rid of the infection, and will then put in a new broviac line. It will still be in his chest, but inserted into a different vein. There are apparently 8 locations these broviacs can be placed, and this will be his fourth one. So we are halfway through our possible locations now. I spoke with the GI doctor, and he's hoping after we are done with this to start upping his g tube feedings more quickly so we can get him off the broviac soon. We would hope to do this within the next 6 months. So surgery is going to be this afternoon. Rowan is still his happy self. He recently learned how to say mamma, and is getting better at tummy time. He can roll over from his tummy to back, so we are halfway there in that front! We will post another update once this is all done.

1 comment:

and then came Kiaya..... said...

Keep me posted. He is such a little trooper and I'm so proud of all of you for how you're handling all the challenges you're faced with. Love you!