Post op Day 7

The last 2 days have been horrible for our Buddy. His temps have been really high and left him feeling horrible. Most of his usual blood draw veins have been used for IVs or are very near to his IVs, so sticking him for blood cultures all the time is proving to be very difficult. He has endured a lot over the last 7 days. He is supposed to be walking the halls a couple times a day but what ever other infection besides the fungal infection he’s fighting is zapping all his energy. He’s legs, ankles and knees hurt so much when he walks. Thankfully his lungs are finally on the mend.

Now the fevers. He started spiking fevers the day after surgery that’s when he tested positive for the fungal blood infection. A day or 2 after the first 48 hour rule out it vancomycin and cefapime he started to feel better. Once the antibiotics were stopped he started the fevers again. They decided on blood cultures and another 48 hour rule out of vancomycin and cefapime. He was feeling better with negative cultures again so the antibiotics were stopped. He then starts spiking fevers again but higher and making him feel down right awful. Infectious Disese came by to see him yesterday and decided that they would just watch his fevers. In the hopes that they would go away. He woke up this morning with a fever. Every 4 hours his fever spiked a whole degree. Poor buddy had a fever the whole day. The CVICU Drs feel that Broc is fighting another infection which is taking a break when Broc is on antibiotics. So again tonight they drew blood cultures and started vancomycin and cefapime again. After a couple hours his fevers started to lower. I really hope the antibiotics help him so that his body can focus on healing and getting stronger and not fighting infections.

Depending on what happens with these fevers and what his labs look like he may have to be on several antibiotics and anti fungals. We may not be able to do both at home so this may keep us longer in the hospital. We are trying to have patience as his team figure out the best possible treatment plan for him. Being in the hospital is no fun for anyone but we cannot take him home until we have these under control. Everytime we think we have them under control they just come back with a vengeance.

Thank you for all your love, prayers and support.
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