April 15, 2008

Today has been a rough day. Last thursday Zachary had a reservoir placed to drain the spinal fluid from the hydrocephalus that was building up. On Friday he was doing wonderful and they extubated him and placed him strait on nasal cannula and he was on room air! On Saturday night he became lethargic and started having bradi's every minute to two minutes. they then placed him back on the ventilator and ran some tests. Turned out that he now has bacterial meningitis. The bacteria is a gram negative bacteria called serratia marcescens. According to Infectious Disease team this is a pretty serious bug. Because it is so hard to kill, they immediately took him into the OR and removed the reservoir and gave him a dose of gentimycin to go ahead and start attacking the bacteria in the spinal fluid. He is now stable and we are just waiting until this is cleared out of his body. That is the update for now. I will try and remember to keep you all posted! Thanks for all the prayers!! We love you all!