Good news and bad

So Mason continues to make improvement towards his vent settings. He has continued to have some blood gases that were good enough where they could wean his rate and his pressure. He has tolerated it which is good news. He continues to look healthy and be his normal fiesty self. He certainly doesn't look sick but his lab work on the other hand isn't looking too good...

Yesterday, his CRP was elevated (as I mentioned in my last post). It was 212. Today they redrew it and it was 222. Initially, we were hoping it was a lab error but apparently it is not. Also, today platelets were down to in the 40's where earlier this week they were 136. Another not so great sign. They redrew blood cultures today and started him on vancomycin and gentamycin. Nothing else is pointing to infection so far other than these numbers. So, if it is infection then the good news is they caught it early. So far, yesterdays cultures have come back negative but they could come back positive at anytime so right now we are waiting and watching. No news is good news. We continue to know that God has Mason, no matter what is going on, in the palm of his hand and will be with us. Please continue to pray for healing for our little guy. He continues to amaze us and those around us daily.

Romans 8:18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us.