Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Hospital Stay at Dupont

As I sit (at 3 am on Tuesday Morning) here watching Asher play in his "medal house" it's basically a huge crib that looks like a jail cell, I think back on all the events of the day. We are currently on the 3rd floor up here at A. I. Dupont with probably a "indefinite" stay.
We were admitted to this room at 10 am on Monday morning (though it seems like we have been here much longer) for Asher's very swollen finger, which at the time they thought was some kind of blood, skin or bone infection (which they have since ruled all that out, which is a relief.) and also his very low count of Nuetrophils (his are only 1/6th of what they need to be. The ideal count is 1000 and his are less than 200 which makes him very very susceptible to any infections or anything. So for now they have him on what they call reverse isolation. Basically what that means is that any doctors or nurses that come in have to put a gown on with gloves, just to get anywhere near him, also any visitors that we have need to scrub up and sanatize thier hands before even walking through the door. It is really scary, but at the same time I am feeling a little relief at the fact that they will hopefully find out some kind of answers to him haveing so many fevers and such a low neutrophil count by Thursday at the earliest (which would also be the earliest that we could go home). They are running a series of blood tests on him in order to find the source of the problem, but right now we are playing the "hurry up and wait" game. In the meantime. we would welcome any visitors or phone calls. We are in A.I.Dupont 3E room 7, the phone number for our room is 1-302-651-5431
As we find our more, I will update accordingly.
Prayer welcomed and encouraged.

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