Sunday, April 25, 2010

well...

Malachi's PICC line had to be pulled today. Over the past day or so during dressing changes the nurses had noticed some white discoloration around the PICC site. Then instead of just white, it was white and kind of fuzzy. I was there today when they took off the dressing to take a look at it and decide what they were going to do with it. Nasty! Some semi-solid green pus grossness came off with the dressing. The surrounding skin was red and tender. The decision was made to remove the PICC and to stop further risk of infection. With Malachi's immune system, it's just a chance we can't take.

His blood cultures were negative for any growth, so the general antibiotics he was on have been stopped. So right now he doesn't NEED an IV, but we're praying that he remains stable enough so the he doesn't need any sort of IV access the rest of this hospitalization. We are also praying that the crazy bad diaper rash he has right now doesn't turn in to some sort of a yeast infection (which has happened in the past). Yeast is something very hard for Malachi's system to fight.

His skin is still super dry and the rash still covers his body and now his face is really flaky. Also, I think some of his lymph nodes have gotten bigger. The "plan" is for him to come home tuesday or wednesday, but I'm not feeling super optimistic about that.

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