Hospital Update

Sorry I haven’t updated earlier.  I didn’t have a computer with me at the hospital and was holding Brock almost constantly for the first 24 hours we were there. 

– The CT of his brain, chest, and abdoment all looked normal except that his bladder looked really full.  That’s the same thing an ultrasound showed LAST Wednesday night when Jay took him to the ER.  They put in a foley catheter to help empty it but I’m not really sure what they’re thinking as far as why it’s like that.

– Wednesday night Brock kept us awake and worried all night long because his blood pressure was pretty low (around 80/27).  He normally has problems with hypertension and takes 2 blood pressure medicines, so that’s REALLY low for him.  We gave him two boluses of saline to try to get it to come up but it didn’t really help  (although it might have helped keep it from dropping lower).  It finally came up to a more normal range around 6am.

– He also cried in his sleep all. night. long. on Wednesday and he would only sleep on me.  (They started a morphine drip when we got there Wednesday afternoon)

– By Thursday morning, however, he was sleeping comfortably in the crib…but he’s been sleeping constantly since then.

– Yesterday the doctor told us that if the CT looked completely normal then she might consider that he’s having a casey of ‘steroid induced psychosis.’  She said she’s seen it in one other toddler and they gave the little girl phenegren to treat it.  Technically, Brock is too young for phenegren but we were going to try it if the CT looked fine.  I’m not sure what her plan is now that it showed the urine retention. 

– So it looks like the culprits could be withdrawl from the pain meds, unexplained bladder retention, regular steroid aggitation, or ‘steroid induced psychosis.’  Or some combination of those.