Aiden has been having home nursing come out, every other day since Saturday.
Today, the home health nurse took one look at his chest and I was on the phone with Dr. Pediatrician getting an appointment for antibiotics. And I also had a call in with Dr. Pediatric Cardiologist.
Now, I'm not going to go into detail about why Aiden got an infection or my thoughts on it. But here it what it looks like as of 10 minutes ago.
Let's just say that for the past month, it has not looked this bad. There was no pus, the redness was not there. This is what happens when non-qualified medical personnel makes a medical decision. It did not even look like this on Wednesday of this week.
Dr. Pediatric Cardiologist's nurse called and could get Aiden in before he could get into Dr. Pediatrician's office.
Aiden was sent for a CBC, diff, wound culture and gram stain. The CBC and diff came back with all normal numbers, so Dr. Pediatric Cardiologist said that the infection has not reached Aiden's blood stream. Which is good, we weren't going to be admitted tonight. We are still waiting on the gram stain and it will be Monday at the earliest before we get the results of the wound culture.
She also did an ECHO to rule out any effusion, which he does not have. This is good news.
Aiden is back on Keflex for the time being unless the wound culture shows something else is growing, then he will either change antibiotics or be admitted for iv antibiotics.
Today, the home health nurse took one look at his chest and I was on the phone with Dr. Pediatrician getting an appointment for antibiotics. And I also had a call in with Dr. Pediatric Cardiologist.
Now, I'm not going to go into detail about why Aiden got an infection or my thoughts on it. But here it what it looks like as of 10 minutes ago.