Keegan will have a PICC line placed tomorrow morning. This is a more temporary central line that will come out Keegan's arm. It is placed via the interventional radiology team, not surgery. It will require anesthesia however (I believe this will be the 35th time...
I'm so very creative with my post titles, huh?Keegan's had an ok day. He struggled with his fever all night, but regularly scheduled tylenol has kept it down today. We are out of the first 24-hour period with no growth on the blood cultures. We...
A lot can happen in three days. Keegan is back in the hospital for one thing. Dang it.The last two days he has been rather lethargic. He was refusing to get out of bed in the mornings, spending most of the morning cuddled in the...
Just a quick post tonight to say Keegan was discharged late Monday afternoon from the hospital. (Yes, I'm well aware that today is Wednesday. Thank you.) The bleeding from his port and into the line has slowed but not stopped. Keegan's blood counts came up...
Maybe tomorrow Keegan will get to go home. We are still having some strange issues and continued bleeding from his port but not nearly as bad as before. We have polled everyone from surgery to oncology looking for ideas as to what could possibly be...
Keegan is still inpatient. We were able to get his port working last night after busting out a clot that was in there, likely from all the bleeding. That allowed us to use it to run his TPN overnight, but it didn't address the bleeding...
So, you may have noticed via our twitter feed or FB updates that Keegan has been inpatient since last night because of an issue with his port. I will try to make a very long story short. We've been having some issues on and off...
Just a quick update to say that we are still waiting on Keegan's biopsy results. Pathology hadn't released anything by 5pm this afternoon. Frustrating to say the least. Hopefully, they will be ready tomorrow. Not that I'm getting my hopes up for results that will...
Keegan came home late last night. He had some significant bleeding and pain from the biopsies, and he didn't sleep too well. Today showed an improvement in his energy levels, if nothing else. He had labs drawn this afternoon, but we don't have results from...
Keegan was admitted to the hospital just after lunctime today to prepare him for his upper endoscopy and colonoscopy tomorrow. In an attempt to provide a better picture of his colon, he is being given a solution through his g-tube to "clean him out." This...