Here is a quick recap of the last few days- this was typed to a group of my girlfriends :)
I will keep posting updates here.
THURSDAY---
Things are a little scary right now. Jax may have to have surgery on his finger. I am freaking out because I may not be here when he does. Nylin has recital for the next 2 days. She has 4 costume changes and 4 hair changes. I am the only one that can do that. I can't leave her high and dry because her brother is sick. It makes me sick to even have to think about missing him go to surgery though.
We will be here until AT LEAST Sunday. Unfortunately the infection is on his finger which is really bad. The infection can creep into his bone (which according to the xrays has not happened yet) or it can cause circulation problems, both would be really bad. We are waiting for the orthopedic doctors and plastic surgery to come take a look now but as it stands, Jackson may need surgery today or sometime this weekend. The antibiotic seems to be helping with the redness of the infection but not the swelling.
I attached a few picture of his poor little finger so you can see what I mean. (sorry for the quality, it was taken on my cell) It is just terrible. Thankfully he has responded well to the pain medications and is in a good mood. He is also sleeping well.
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UPDATE FRIDAY@ 9:50 PM
I talked to surgery right before I left (@ 2:30 to take care of Nylin) and they assured me that no surgery was needed and they did not even think it was infected, just swollen. They were going to try some topical cream and go from there.
At 6:00 Jason called and said that the head surgeon was coming to take a look. At 610 he called and told me they were going to sedate him and get the fluid out. I was freaking.
They ended up getting a little over 1 ml of fluid out of there. They gave him vicodin and he was pretty calm through it.
They then put a new IV in, this time in his foot. He was also calm for that since he was doped up!
Nylin and I came up to the hospital to give him hugs and kisses and calm my nerves a little.
I had a nervous break down right after we left the rehearsal. My father in law called to ask if he could keep Jace and Kara. It was just one more thing I had to decide and I lost it, lol.
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SATURDAY UPDATE @ 10ish--
We are still at the hospital. We will be here till at least Monday.
Jackson is getting the IV antibiotics every 8 hours still. He just got his last dose of vicodin a little while ago. If he is really in a lot of pain we will have the doc order more.
his finger looks terrible!
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SUNDAY UPDATE
The doctor came in this morning and checked his finger out. There was a pocket of pus forming but we could not get to it to get it out. It was too hard to get the wound packed last night so it closed up and formed that pocket.
The plastic surgeon came back in here a while later and managed to break open the pocket and get the pus out. We put a corner of gauze in the wound to keep it open. Hopefully that will stop it from happening again.
I almost threw up when they were messing with it. I cant explain it but having someone else mess with his skin FREAKS ME OUT. I do this with him everyday and I can handle it just fine but watching someone else do it makes me ill.
We will be here at least another 24 hours so they can make sure that his wound does not heal from the outside in.
The cultures came back and it is staph. Poor guy.
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