One More Night....

..and by that I don't mean the "lovely" Phil Collins ballad. I mean we're hoping that this will be JT's last night in the big house for a while.

JT is resting comfortably in his room while the team of doctors and lab personnel attempt to figure out just what type of infection he has. One theory is that the current infection stems from his original infection. In essence, the first treatment just didn’t get all of the junk out and it grew back.

If this is in fact the case, the plan (tentatively speaking) would be to send James home on some new antibiotics. The difference this time would be that he would be hooked to an IV pump every six hours for 4 weeks with a few hours "off pump" every couple of days. This is quite a change from the last go-around which had him hooked up for only about 40 minutes/day for 2 weeks. But if that’s the deal, we’ll play the hand. I’m all in.

So far, JT hasn’t minded too much that he’s back in the hospital. Another boy, Isaac, who is battling his own health problems found himself back at BBCH for central line work. JT and Isaac have seemed to hit it off and have spent some time in the playroom and chatted about different Nintendo DS games. As much as I hate to see Isaac (or JT) spend any time in the hospital, it is nice that the two have become familiar with each other.

Hopefully, the next update will be from home. And, just so you know, we haven’t forgotten about the interview. Stay tuned. We will re-join our regularly scheduled programming shortly.

Be careful out there…
dct