Michael has had a cold that got nasty over the weekend, and then on Monday he ran a slight temperature, which with his immune issues is something to pay attention to. We went in to see his hematologist because his lung doctor was very busy to get an x-ray. She went ahead and cultured his throat, nose, and blood and we went home to wait as his x-ray didn’t look too bad. Yesterday morning (Tuesday) his doctor called and said his blood culture was positive for an infection in the blood and that we needed to come in. The cultures take a range of 24 hours to 4 days for full growth so they didn’t have a particular strain or known sensitivity (which antibiotic would best kill it) but they didn’t want to wait that long. He came in and they hit him with two antibiotics, one of which is a “big gun”–which also started some hives, but they caught them quickly. Right now he is on a second antibiotic every 8 hours while they find out more from the first culture and start to get results from the second culture they did yesterday and they took another early this morning. His fever was up last night and he had a bit of a rough patch but he was feeling better around 10 or 11pm and he slept pretty good (other than the normal getting woke up every couple hours being checked) last night with some medication.

His fever is down this morning, though his heart rate was up a bit and he is tired and has some pain around his left rib cage. So we’re just in a “wait and see” mode at the moment as we wait for test results.