End of the weekend

It's Sunday night, time for a blog entry....

Things are still going well. As expected everything is not perfect, but still trending upward. Liam does have a STAPH infection in his blood, so if you are sick, please don't visit right now, his immune system isn't at it's best. He's been on oral antibiotics since last week when they noticed his white cell count was going upward. When they figure out it was staph yesterday morning they started him on an IV antibiotic as well. However, yesterday afternoon I noticed he was developing what appeared to be a drug rash and notified the doctors. I was right, and they stopped the IV antibiotics, but the oral ones will continue. It takes five days for the blood culture results that tell us what type of staph this is and what antibiotics it will be sensitive to. When those result are back the doctors can decide if he needs different antibiotics. He's been sleeping a lot today - could be due to the infection - could be because of his busy day yesterday.

Yes, a busy day! Since the physical therapists taught me how to transfer him on Friday I was able to get him out of bed and we took him for a ride around the hospital in a special chair. They in the afternoon I got him up again and with help from the nurse on one side and me on the other he walked out of his room and about 30 feet down the hall before he got tierd. They we strapped him into a wheel chair and took him for another ride around the hospital. Each time he was very tired and took a nap afterwards. But it was amazing to see him walking down the hall!

His speaking is getting a bit clearer. Whole phrases are understandable, and he is definitely expressing what he is thinking. Maybe not always the most appropriate things (I can't repeat some of these things here but, he did tell his mom "you look pregnant and I look normal") but he is able to express what he wants to. His voice is still very quiet, and when he is tired it is almost impossible to understand him.

He has been eating well, about 2 complete meals a day, which is more then I could eat of the horrible hospital food. He is still on a pureed food diet - this includes pureed meat and veggies. The part that I thin is worst is that they then reform to food with molds to look like the real thing. The turkey is shaped into slices of turkey breast, the corn is pressed into a mold that looks this corn on the cob, and the peas into a mold that looks like a pile of peas. Well, they don't really look like the real thing, but they are trying to. I think it just makes it that much worse.

I thought I would also tell you all about my adventurous afternoon, it's frustrating and funny.... it started with me really wanting to get our dogs back from my parents. I have been missing them, Kiea has too, and I need to cuddling. Plus, I like getting outside with them. I asked my dad to bring them back on the ferry and agreed to meet him at the ferry terminal so he could get right back on the ferry. I was tired so Kiea drove me. When my dad came off the terminal i shoved my iphone (which i love) into the pocket of my sweatshirt jacket and grabbed Alfie from him. In his rush he had forgotten Alfies collar and had to carry him the whole time. We ran to the car and tossed the dogs in the car as well as the food, bowls, and treats. My dad ran back to the ferry and Kiea and I drove home while I cuddled with the dogs. When I went to get out of the car I realized I couldn't find my iphone.... We searched the car and tried calling it with Kiea's phone - it went straight to voice mail....not a good sign. I had an instant bad feeling that I had dropped it and it had been run over by a car. Kiea and I drove back to the where she had parked the car under the Viaduct, and there, in a pot hole in the parking spot was my iphone :( Kiea had backed over it when we had pulled out of the spot (not in anyway here fault). I grabbed it and looked at it, the screen was shattered into a million pieces, the only reason it hadn't fallen apart was becasue I have a screen protector, and it was holding the screen together. I think having been in a pothole must have kept the phone from getting all the pressure of the car because amazingly enough the phone turned on when I pushed the power button. Unbelievable! It still works, but the screen is destroyed. And you can't get insurance on iphones, this means tomorrow I have to go talk to apple and see if I have any options other then paying for a new one. This couldn't have happened at a worse time, right? I mean I use my phone all day everyday now, and I don't exactly want to spend the money to get another one. I could buy a cheap replacement of some other type, but I love my iphone and really need it's funciontality. I'll have to think about what to do tomorrow. The funny part is, I have broken or lost 3 phones in the last year and a half. Liam bought me the iphone on my last birthday, and the card said "make sure you don't break this one." If I told him he would say "your fired." Expensive to replace, and it was from him :( To make it better, we get home and Alfie, being Alfie, has gotten into my purse and pulled everything out of it. He destroyed the shipping envelopes for my netflix movies, but I can get new ones. The real problem is he ate a half a bag of Cadbury chocolate easter eggs that I love, and an entire sleeve of Thin Mint girl scout cookies. This is the third time he has eaten a large amount of chocolate. We figured he should be fine, since he has done this before and had no problems. But I am getting a bit worried right now, this evening his breathing has gotten labored and his heart rate seems faster then usual, ad he seems lethargic. I hope I don't have to take him to the emergency vet, that's the last thing I need, more stress about a sick loved on (not that he is on the same level as Liam) and more medical bills.... So, that was my probably to be very expensive evening.

More tomorrow.
Erika