We're bound and determined!!!

Mason is doing better. He has been awake for awhile now, and isn't too crabby. Dr. Dyke came to visit and we talked about alot of things.

He reassured us that Mason's heart is very strong and we shouldn't be worried when his heart rate is in the 200's.

We talked about the recurrence of these fevers...and the way they have been reappearing every 3 weeks now. He thinks its possible that we are masking an infection with the antibiotics he has been placed on each time. He is going to speak with the residents to try and convince them to take him off the antibiotics.

Care plan:
We will stop antibiotics to see if the fevers return. If they do not - GREAT. However, if they do, Dr. Dyke would want them to do another blood culture and do a echo by sticking a tube down his throat and looking at his heart "from the inside" for potential endocarditis. If nothing is found with the heart, they will call for a full CT scan to look for anything infectious. He would need to be sedated for the echo, so we would possibly discuss with Dr. Koehn to see if we could get an MRI at the same time. *Craziness*

He is also going to call Dr. Brad Sullivan. He is an infectious disease doctor with 30 years experience. We will just see if he has any thoughts...

So it will be an interesting night. I can't figure out what I want more - no fevers so we can go home on Friday or fevers so we can figure out what the heck this is!!!