Sam

A little update for those of you who don't know. This will be short and sweet cause this keyboard totally sucks. Sam had what appeared to be a flu on thurs. and fri. He seemed lethargic, so I took him to the doctor. They sent us to AF hospital to get some fluids and we ended up staying over. His electolyte levels were all out of wack by Sat. and so they took him by ambulance to Primary Childrens where we remain. He made the record here of "stool" at 500 per kilo, which is basically 5 liters of shit. They took him off of all food (he was only allowed clears anyway). His bowels needed a rest (his poo was coming out jello if he ate jello, it was literally taking 10 minutes for whatever went in his mouth to come out the other end. They got his levels stable last night(sunday)and did an xray and cat scan and both looked good. They weren't sure was was causing all of this, and he has bacteria in his blood. Yesterday afternoon they decided it was most likely bacilles cerrus. I totally just spelled that wrong, but it's close enough. He will get to have liquids in the morning sometime and they will put a pick line in to keep an eye on his blood levels and give him antibiotics. If all goes well we will be able to come home on wed. night. He just gave us a scare around midnight when his temp. dropped and his heart rate dropped really low. We couldn't wake him up. They did a blood gas test, which just came back normal and we are heating him up with lots of blankets and heating pads. He is doing fine, but the last 4 hours have been really scary. He isn't active at all, but alert and knows when the nurses come in he will be getting touched. That's all I can type right now, got to get back in the room. We have great nurses, and awesome doctors here, I will elaborate more later.