Day 165: Back To The Hospital

Since leaving the hospital on Friday we have been waiting for Cristian to return to his old self and resume playing with his toys and Leena. However that hasn’t been the case as the weekend drug on. Cristian has continued to be low energy, not eating anything, and barely drinking. Poor guy has even had issues keeping food and medicine down. Luckily we have not had a fever.

Going the cautious route we decided today that we should speak with the doctors about what we see in Cristian and get their recommendation. After a brief phone call the doctors expressed their concern that Cristian may be dehydrated and asked that we return to the hospital for them to check.

Shortly after arriving and seeing the doctor, they got Cristian all hooked for a blood test and to start giving him fluids. From what the doctors could see and based on what we have told them, dehydration seems to be the source of what is keeping Cristian down.

After an hour or so of fluids (and anti nausea meds) Cristian had noticeably improved in energy and appearance. Over the next 2 hours Cristian had drank more than he had the entire day, and it was about 5pm at this point. All good signs.

The doctors decided that they too would take a conservative approach to treating Cristian and admitted us for overnight fluids and observation. We will have a few additional blood draws over the next 18 hours and hopefully be going home by mid day.

We ask that everyone pray for Cristian’s quick recovery from this dehydration so we may return home. We’ve spent too many days here recently.