Two...In More Than A Decade

Here we are at day +7.  We were told Monday that by day +7 Nick would be fed by IV because his throat would be too sore and his mucous membranes would be in a horrible state.  In fact, on Monday Nick asked his doctor when the "sucky days" would begin.  She said that by the end of the week it would be pretty sucky.  She also followed that she had only had one patient in more than a decade that could still eat by day +7, and that he could no longer even try to eat anything but soft foods.

We have had a couple of pretty hard days.  Wednesday evening Nick's fever spiked all of a sudden and his throat became very sore.  They immediately took blood and urine samples to culture, did a chest x-ray, and put him on more prophylactic antibiotics.  We were told that this was expected, but they needed to find the cause immediately.  We were also told that he would be on parenteral nutrition Thursday morning.

To make a long story short...not only is the fever gone and all the cultures negative, but today he ate two bowls of Ramen noodles, one bowl of macaroni & cheese, and drank two Ensures, two bottles of apple juice and a Gatoraid.  No IV nutrition, and no more sore throat.  He had rebounded by Thursday afternoon.

Now she has seen TWO, in more than a decade.


It is Well.