Recovering at Home

We have been home a week now.Broc is doing really well besides having a fever.He is not needing much pain meds which is great for him.He is a little sore in the morning as his legs get used to moving again from resting the whole night.

Him and his brother have been trying to be really good about not jumping and running and playing rough but for 2 brothers who have been apart for 2 weeks or more its really difficult. There Aunt and Uncle bought them a great Hot wheels racing track and that has been been in the living room everyday with all the cars lines up to ramp and race.

Everyday the track is built a different way or another peice is added to it.We bought extra track for the boys too and they love that it can almost go the length of our hall way.

Dr Eliason very kindly drew us a picture of  what his leg looked like before and after surgery as the x-ray/u/s pics are not that clear.I was not able to load it until today.

As you can see in this picture his graft was much longer than we all expected and his occlusion was much worse too.

Broc had a check-up yesterday with some labs and they were pretty good except his eosinaphil count was really high which meant that he is having an allergic reaction in his body somewhere.

This could also be the cause of his fevers that he has been having since Sunday and is still having.His ped thinks that his body is reacting to the mesh that is around his graft or the sutures so we are doing another CBC on Friday to see what the level is then.I have also called his surgeon about it and are waiting to hear from them, probably on Monday.

We got a call from the vascular team yesterday regarding Brocs labs and they wanted to know what was going on so we told them that he was having a fever but acting fine.They said that because of the prosthetic graft we have to err on the side of caution and take him to the ER for a full infection work up.

I quickly grabbed a bite to eat and Broc and I headed out.Fortunately it was not full and we were taken back pretty quickly.After a full history of Broc was taken all the necessary tests were run.Everything came back clear except for the blood culture which will take 48 hours so we were sent home around 10pm last night.We were so happy to have such a wonderful ER Dr.Those can be very hard to come by  nowadays.She said that if I felt comfortable taking him home with a fever then we could leave.Obviously if his fever still persists then we will have to look into it further.

Thank goodness Broc is not wanting to go outside and play as it is so hot and he really does not like the heat.We are spending our days playing race track,reading books and playing board games.

Thank you again to everyone that helped us out during Brocs surgery.