Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Home sweet home

After 6 very long days we are home 1 day early!!

We are so very happy to be back and be all together again.

Sunday, March 29, 2009

Still in hospital

Luca is still in hospital and will be there until Wednesday. All the tests are back in and 2 separate forms of bacteria have been found in his lungs, so we are actually dealing with 2 different strains of pneumonia.

The doctors have decided that to fight both infections Luca needs to complete a full 7 days of
intravenous antibiotics. So in the hospital we will stay until then.

There is no Internet connection at the hospital so I am making the most of a quick trip home to pick up more clothes (dh brought a bag to the hospital but not with the right stuff in it!!) The bag contained lots of Fabio's socks and long sleeves tops which Luca can't wear as his IV is at elbow level.

Luca is doing ok. He had a few tears on Friday when the doctors pushed our original departure date back from Saturday to Monday. But he took yesterday's extension to Wednesday in his stride.

By a strange coincidence Fabio's best friend was admitted yesterday and him and his mum are sharing a room with us. They are good company and that is helping keep Luca's spirits up.

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Update on Luca

Well Luca slept well last night which is a great relief. I did not sleep much but that is ok. I seemed to spend the night watching his heart/o2 monitor (do other parents find themselves doing that at night in hospital?) and praying for him and other sick children around the world and slept very little.

The nurses also came in every half hour from 11:00 pm until 5:30 am so it was a busy night.

His fever is coming down this morning and his O2 is up from the 80s into the low 90s and he seems less weak this morning so hopefully the antibiotics are beginning to do their stuff. Thank goodness we are blessed to live in a part of the world where these treatments are so readily available to us.

He is still quite happy to just rest in bed, but once he starts getting restless I will be happy (for once :) ) as it will mean he is really on the road to recovery!

This is Luca's 3rd bout of pneumoia in 5 months, and late last night the pedeatrican on call sat and talked with me about further possible testing to see if he has a, as yet, undetected immunity problem. As I understood last night this will only involve a series of blood tests (at a specialised hospital 3 hours away) but it seems like a good path to take.

Thank you for checking in on Luca.