Day 102: Extended Stay, Without The Vacation

Following Cristian’s fever on Saturday we have remained in the hospital. The morning after admission they were able to determine that he had a bacterial infection (some long medical name I can’t remember) and started a specific antibiotic to treat it. Based on this finding the doctor said we should plan to be here for 7-10 days to ensure that the infection is completely out of his system and his port.

While this isn’t how we planned to spend our weekend, or our work week, we are glad that we brought him in to get checked out instead of hoping it would pass at home. Seeing Cristian continue to not feel good here in the hospital does get us down, we know he is in good hands.

This will be an interesting week for all of us. Mimi, Gpa, and Aidan are set to leave tomorrow without seeing Cristian. Maria and I are going to be rotating who is at the hospital, trying to get work done. All the while we make sure Cristian has everything he needs to get through this as quick as possible. Cristian is scheduled to have chemo tomorrow but we are speculating that they will delay a week since his body is already working to fight off whatever this is. All of this, and we are sure Leena misses her play buddy every day as well.

We ask that everyone continues to pray for Cristian to have a quick recovery from this and for God to get him home. We know this is part of his plan, we just pray that we are almost done with this part.