Last night, around midnight Matthew's nurse came in and stated that Matthew's blood cultures had 'prelimeninary' come back with 'gram positive cocci' in his blood. (that mean that he has bacteria in his blood....that isn't good). There is a possibility that it is a 'contaminent', meaning the bacteria came from his skin and not the blood. They will not know that until the specimen 'grows' more in the lab. We may know more as soon as tonight or maybe tomorrow night. Until then they have started Matthew on two pretty strong antibiotics. Which means that at 1 am we had to start ANOTHER IV.....and draw MORE lab work. That sort-of made for a cranky mama {okay, a REALLY cranky mama}. By the time they were done picking on him, it was 3 am. So, I'm really tired! I've gotten one nap today and I'm hoping to get another one.
The doctor came in and talked to us. We will get more bloodwork this afternoon, and see if the antibiotics he is on are strong enough. He is still on oxygen and needs to have it to keep his oxygen levels up. So it may be a couple more days or so before we get to go home. I'm praying that as his cultures grow out that they show it was just contaminated and we can stop the antibiotics. The doctor seems to think that it is most likely viral and not bacterial. We'll hopefully know more tonight or possibly tomorrow afternoon,

Off to take a nap.......