Spoke to Dr Parente this morning, he was concerned. Nash still has the fever. He was saying it is at 104 still which is considered a high grade fever. So today they are looking into the cause of the fever. They are running his blood work and checking it against when the blood work from when he was admitted. They are also going to do a fecal sample, to look for bacteria. Lastly he talked about the chance of infection at the incision site. He noticed a little more swelling but said that if there was an infection there it would be very painful to touch. Yet Nash is not indicating that it is very painful. Hopefully they will get to the bottom of this soon so my boy can come home.
Picture from last year.
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Nov 25, 2013 @ 15:21:18
The blood work came back with elevated levels of Fibrinogen (900), this is an indication of inflammation. They did an ultra sound of the surgical site and found that there was fluid around it but it was not thick. Meaning that it is the expected post-op fluid and if it was thick it would indicate infection.
They then ultra-sounded his chest, on the side he was laying down on during the procedure. He thinks that Nash may have developed pneumonia, even though he is not coughing. So they are going to collect a fluid sample from the lungs for culture. Then change his antibiotics based on the results to better fight the infection.