Fever

Blaze has a fever that is keeping him here in the hospital. They thought perhaps it was just his body reacting to having something done to him. Now they don't know. So, they've done a blood draw and culture, and had his nose swabbed. On this floor, having your nose swabbed is an automatic "isolation room." Everyone in the medical field will have to wear a gown, gloves and possibly a mask when they come into Blaze's room. They can't afford to have other heart babies sick, if what he has is contagious. They feel like we've already been exposed to whatever it is and we won't have to "suit up." As soon as the room is cleaned for us, we will move to room 2 on 7West. However, the best way to contact us is through our cell phones or email. Nurses frown on having the room phone ring. Tim's cell number is: 417-251-1727. Joy's cell is: 417-251-1728.

Last night was really rough, he was restless and was sick to his tummy. Joy kept trying to lay him down, but he likes to sleep on his tummy. He had several leads monitoring him, and every time he tried to lay down to sleep he would lose one and set the alarms off or it was just uncomfortable to lay on and wake up fussing. He's slept in his bed most of today, with Imagination Movers playing on his dvd player in his crib. He's wiped out and doing his best to fight whatever this is off. At this point they're not sure what's causing the fever, but at this point their guess is that is NOT an infection. His fever came on so suddenly after the heart cath, they feel that he was probably exposed to something before the cath and it just happened we were already here. We'll see!

Thank you for your support and encouragement. We are so very grateful this happened while we were here at Children's. If this had happened at home, he'd have to go into St. John's, or if we were in Jeff City as planned, he'd have to probably be transported to Columbia. It's good to be in a safe place for him. We'll keep you updated.