Gonna make this quick...
Ricky is in the hospital.
Friday night he threw up all night and ran a temperature most of Saturday. We figured it was the stomach flu, and he was fine by Saturday afternoon. Yesterday he started having severe abdominal pain in and so we went to our local hospital (he was screaming in pain and I didn't want to take any chances) at about 3:30 p.m. They did a chest x-ray and an abdominal x-ray and decided that though he was full of stool (which might possibly mean a bowel blockage, which can happen with CF), he also seemed to have pneumonia in two lobes.
He started running a rather high temperature which wasn't brought down even with Tylenol. He slept off and on and was really being good, considering everything. He was started on an IV because his heart rate was fast, indicating possible dehydration.
Eventually we got the pediatrician in there, and he decided (with me) that Ricky should be transferred to Packard Children's Hospital to be treated (that's where he goes for CF treatment, and the local hospital doesn't know much about CF anyhow). FINALLY at 12:30 a.m. this morning we got the ambulance after the docs and charge nurse went back and forth about whether we'd be allowed to transfer him ourselves and finally decided against it. By this time Ricky had fallen deep asleep and ended up being asleep for the whole ambulance ride!
We got here and were finally checked in by 3 a.m. He was started on ceftazidime (antibiotic) by IV. This morning he had x-rays and they were talking enema, and then he pooped (pooped again this evening). The abdominal x-ray apparently looked much better, and I FINALLY found out that the chest x-ray wasn't bad either. So depending on how he does tonight we *might* go home tomorrow. Woo hoo!
Just wanted to update everyone as to why I've been rather absent. I'm going to take a while to catch up on email but I will be able to do it eventually!
Talk to you all later!
Note: Ricky came home on August 10.
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