Back in the game

So they are pretty comfortable saying that Mason is "back in the ball game". All I can say is all praise be to the Almighty! His blood gases have been fabulous and they have weaned his rate and pressures on the vent. His blood pressures have been stable and he is off the dopamine. They are going to wean his hydrocortisone by 20 percent today. All of his labs looked good. Platelets continue to be up...I think last night they were 156 and this morning they were in the 130's. Only thing that was low was his albumin and he is going to get some of that today his dr. said that that would also help him pull some of the fluid back into the blood because he is really puffy and swollen.

The other thing that encourages me that I found out it the began giving him the miripinum (antibiotic that fights off bacteria) prior to the lumbar puncture that was done on Friday night. That puncture is what showed the LARGE number of white blood cells in his cerebral spinal fluid. It wasn't until after the puncture that he was given the fungal antibiotic. All cultures continue to come back negative and we will probably never know if it was bacterial or fungal but atleast you would think that after he has already been in 3 antibiotics that target bacteria it should have helped some. But then again I am not a dr.

I want to continue to thank all of you for your prayers and for following our story. Your prayers and God's healing hand is what is getting us through all of this. Please continue to cover our little Mason in prayers of healing.