270th day in the NICU

Drayke is not feeling good today. Yesterday he was spiking a fever of around 101. We were thinking/hoping it was one of his normal "I have been weaned to quickly off of one of my meds" fevers and that it would resolve within 3 hours or so. We also noticed that his resting heart rate ws unusually high, hanging around 160. His normal resting rate is between 90-120. So this was of concern to me & dad.

As the day progressed the temp kept fluxuating between 101 to 103. His night nurse gave him at least two baths to cool him down.

This morning his temp is still between 102-103 and his resting heart rate is 200+. Dr M has put him on antibiotics until we see what the blood culture is doing. His white blood cell count is a little elevated but not enough to indicate much of anything. A urine sample was taken and they even thouroughly cleaned out his ears to get a good look. We are also going to get a throat swab done to check for strep and RSV.

While his day nurse was cleaning up his GJ tube site Drayke had a febrial seizure that lasted about a minute or so. The Fellow was just down the hall and I grabbed her to see what was happening. She then got Dr M and we discussed how this can happen with fevers. She said to Drayke "you get a free pass on this one" but if it happens again we will do an EEG and a lumbar punch to rule out meningitis.

We knew going in to surgery that there could be complications. We are sure that if this is some kind of infection we will knock it down fairly quickly.

If you would like to read more on febrile seizures please goto:
http://www.marchofdimes.com/pnhec/298_9543.asp