Infection.....boo

Brayden started getting fussy on Wed during the day.  He was following Geoffrey every where he went and he just wanted to be held.  That night he got a temp of 103.2......we gave him a cold bath and it brought it down some, but not a lot.

Thursday Geoffrey and I both had to work, my good friend Wendi was watching him so she took him to the doctor for us.  He still had high temp and he had a sore throat.  So Dr. Bauer put him on an antibiotic right away and also some medicine for his throat. Since his throat hurt him, he didn't want to eat.  Which is not like him. 

That night, Brayden started fussing at 3 am, he was burning up and his temp was up to 104.3 rectal.  I of course started crying and didn't know what to do.  Times like this, it is really hard on Geoffrey and I not to have any family here.  I gave him some ibuprofen and within 30 minutes it went down a degree....phew.

Friday he was still fussy, not his happy little self and he and that night we noticed that his expander was a little red and blotchy.  Then we also noticed that on that left expander, he has white pus coming out of the stitches.  We took pictures and emailed then to Dr. Bauer right away.

On a good note, his temp is down which Dr. Bauer said is good and that means the antibotics are working, but now we need to worry about his expander and the infection.  He told us to set everything up like we are doing a fill and numb the port.  But in stead of putting saline in the port, pull back and see if we can get some of that nasty infection out.  Well when we did that, we just got some clear liquid.  So we don't know if it's the saline or what.  So we emailed Dr. Bauer and waiting to hear back.

Brayden did take a 3.5 hr nap today, so that was good and he started eating some food tonight again for the 1st time in 3 days.  He is slowly doing better, but we have to keep an eye on that let expander and the stitches.

If it doesn't heal soon, we might have to take him to the hospital. Or switch his medicine that he is on. 

As always, please pray for my little boy.  He is such a strong boy, and going through so much....we need some good luck to come our way!

On a good note, Geoffrey's mom is coming to Chicago for Brayden's surgery in October, then they will spend a few days touring Chicago....then go to Iowa to visit my family.  Then Kate will fly back to Arizona and spend time with the 3 of us and see where we live.  We are so excited for her to come!


Here is a picture of the left expander.  You can see that the stitches look red.  This was Friay night

This picture is from Saturday night, you can see that the stitches look worse, they are more red and more white pus :(