[tri-med] Re: Nicholas is in ICU

{{{Jayne}}}  Praying for Nicholas and you!  Hope he recoups quickly....

Loren (wife to Kraig, mom to Keren Elyse, T18, 2 1/2 years old 
(9/27/02), and Clarissa Joanne (7/17/05) )
Southeast Michigan
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On Friday, July 29, 2005, at 10:43 AM, Wright 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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