So much for time off!

May 20 - 28, 2013

So our 2-3 weeks off started off OK with good times on Monday and Tuesday at school.
On Tuesday night however, it all went a bit pair shaped.

At around 11.00pm Mitch woke up shivering and them vomiting.  His temperature went from 37.1 to 39.7 over the next 30-40mins.  After a call to the hospital and some consternation about whether to call and ambulance, Lisa drove him in to Emergency arriving around 12.35am.

Straight to ER and onto broad-spectrum antibiotics to try and cover off any number of infections.  His blood pressure dropped and heart rate increased during the night until the ER doctors started talking about an induced coma to 'slow things down'.  They had told Lisa that he had a blood infection (Sepsis) and, at that time, the infection was winning.

Fortunately, by the time I got to Resus that morning, where he had been moved during the night, his BP was starting to rise. Over the next hour he stabilised further and was moved up to ICU.

ICU

After more needles and arterial tubing was inserted, we spent the rest of that day and half of the next in ICU being tended to very closely and pumped full of various drugs and solutions. 

We eventually made it back onto the familiar Kookaburra ward in the afternoon.  Then another weekend in hospital with lots of blood tests, followed by a long day of waiting for results.  He finally made it home on the Monday arvo, when it was determined the blood was clear of infection. 

He now has a special contraption for delivering a constant stream of antibiotics into his port over the next 2 weeks.  This will be tended to daily by "Hospital in the Home" (or school), if Mitch has anything to do with it.


OK....so Take 2 on the 2-3 weeks off...!