[tri-med] Re: Nicholas is in ICU

I'm very sorry to learn of Nick's illness, and I was looking forward to meeting 
him. I hear from the Cooks that he is doing better and I am glad for it.
 
Get well soon,
William (at the conference using the hotel's courtesy Internet 
connection/commuter)
 
Wright <jm.wright@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Well, Nicholas decided he didn't want to go to New York. The day before we were 
to leave for the conference, Nicholas started throwing up bile. So we took him 
to the emergency room and the next day he had surgery. He had a complete bowel 
obstruction. The surgeon had to cut into his bowel because it was kinked and 
relieve the pressure before he could place it back where it belonged. Then he 
found a huge abdominal hernia (we've been down this road before!). That boy 
just won't stay together. He's been in ICU since Sunday. He's on a ventilator 
and now they are suspecting pneumonia. He got a temp on Wed. and they took 
cultures of his urine, blood, and lung and the only one that came back positive 
was the lung. He's already on 3 antibiotics, so they will see which bacteria it 
is before giving him another one. They're giving him breathing treatments and 
had to hydrate him. One thing leads to another. As of right now, they are 
easing up on the sedation and he is starti
ng to open his eyes. Hopefully, by Sat. or Sun. he will be transferred to the 
intermediate floor. They are trying to wean him off the ventilator today.
I'm getting updates from the Cook Family on how the conference is going. We're 
just glad Nick didn't get sick on the way to the conference.

Jayne - mom to Nicholas - T-13 - 10 years old
Hudson IL
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