Brett has been doing extremely well since he was able to come home. He is back to his normal schedule, lasting about 2-3 hours a day including chest PT, inhalers, meds, and breathing treatments.
We have continued the IV antibiotics that were started in the hospital. We had to administer them every 6 hours since Christmas Eve up until yesterday. In the daytime it's not too bad, but we usually go to bed pretty early, so we were getting up at midnight, 12:30, 6 am and 6:30 am to do these. (Since we were on Christmas break, we weren't waking up that early for school). Whenever we get so tired of doing that, we just remind ourselves how much better it is to be able to get it done ourselves, in the comfort of our own home.
Yesterday was the stop date because his next appointment is tomorrow, and if any live bacteria are still in his system that are just being suppressed by the antibiotic, they will have time to grow. We'll get a blood culture Wednesday (about 48 hours after stopping meds), and wait to see if any bacteria grows in the next 48 hours after that. No bacteria growth will be great, and that's exactly what we're praying for.
We'll be praying!
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