OOOPS!

OOOPS! I guess I forgot to give you a follow up from the previous post. Do you forgive me?!?Jackson is doing well. His incision has finally started to heal and looks much better! He still continues on aspirin, lasix, enalapril, and keflex. He still hates medicine time but hopefully all this will be better once we get rid of all the extras...lasix, enalapril, and keflex. He is still somewhat limited on his activity-feet still can't leave the floor:(,and NO SWIMMING:(! We only have about 2 more weeks!! YYYEEEAAA!!! So, for now we're trying to stay cool and NON-busy (no such luck with this one)! Until next time...

A Trip To The ER!!

As we showed you before, Jackson has a "bad" place on his incision. Well, it has progressively gotten worse!! We saw his cardiologist on Wednesday and he has been making threats to send us back to MUSC if it continues to get worse. Friday morning a new place appeared. I called the MD gave him a description of the new area, he told us to continue to watch it for now but that if ANYTHING changes (fever, pain at the site, the new place starts to blend into the old place, or if my "motherly" instinct kicked in, etc,) that he wanted to know about it. So, of course, we checked his incision every couple of hours as we always do and you would know that another new place had formed. Darrin and I both felt very uneasy about the new place-it looked completely different than the old "new" places did. We called the MD on call (of course it wasn't our own MD), we gave him a description, told him what Jackson's MD had told us that morning, and came up with a plan. We all thought that it would be best for someone to lay eyes on it. So... We loaded up the car and headed to Greenville. We arrived at the children's ER at about 10:30pm. Things went very smoothly (this was our very first visit to the ER-and hopefully LAST!). We were seen by the MD and she called the cardiologist on call (the one who said we should go to the ER). They both agreed that Jackson should be started on another antibiotic by mouth. Keflex was ordered and we were on our way at 12:00am! Who has ever heard of an 1 1/2 hour trip to the ER!?! Over the weekend Jackson has pretty much held steady as far as incision site looks go. They wanted us to be seen by our cardiologist today for a recheck. Of course he's not in the Greenville office today, so we are waiting to hear back from him to decide what we should do. Please pray for healing of Jackson's incision and that we don't have to head back to MUSC for any invasive procedures. I will try to update later. Until then...PRAYING and WAITING!!!