Malachi is sick. He has some sort of an infection in his blood stream. They had originally sent two cultures and only one of them is growing bacteria, so they were hoping that maybe it was some sort of outside contaminant that caused the bacteria to grow on the culture. But, his urine culture proved to be positive for infection as well (UTI), so they will continue him on two separate antibiotics sending samples to the lab every 24 hours until it comes back bacteria free. It will, however, probably take him longer than most babies to recover from this sort of thing (due to the absent thymus). Because of the difficulty staff has had with inserting and maintaining his IVs, another central line would be ideal (done by the surgery team). Right now this is not an option for Malachi because of the current infection his body is fighting. His electrolytes are also kind of "off." So they will be giving him different supplements and things to get that back in order. The echocardiogram that they ordered came back showing no source of infection directly related to the heart. This is a very good thing because there was a possibility after surgery that the shunt could become blocked off. Thankfully, that does not seem to be the case. They had planned for today a CT scan of his head to evaluate the bony structure of his ears. Hopefully we should hear back if there are any structural abnormalities tomorrow. John said it was probably best that I was not at the hospital today because he was VERY VERY irritable and when they were trying to take CT images he was red from screaming and crying and arching his back up off the table. They decided that that was enough testing for the day and that he had been through enough that they were going to postpone his brain MRI. Most likely, they will do this early next week.
*Malachi--comfort and strength to fight off infection while trying to breath and digest food.
*Marissa and Emerson--recover from sickness.
*John--avoid catching whatever the rest of us have.
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