Corbin's HOME!!!

just wanted to put a quick update on the blog...

corbin got to come home yesterday afternoon!!! and he's doing GREAT!!! he's getting his appetite back (hooray!!!)...our next hurdle is getting him to take his medicine (it tastes yucky & he cries every time we give it to him--which is 3 times a day)...

thank you again for your prayers!! i can't begin to tell you how fabulous it is to have the family all under one roof again!!!

blessings,
candace

Update on Corbin--2-12-09

well, we're still up here at the hospital...today's day 5 and this room is starting to feel like a 2nd home...ha, ha!

corbin's doing better..he still has a fever, however, the fever spikes are getting fewer and fewer...he's still refusing to eat or drink...and in order to be released from the hospital, he has to both be fever free for 24 hours and has to eat and drink enough to sustain himself...so we're still here for at least another day or two...

he's had 2 visits from saydee--a sweet yellow labrador therapy dog who we know from brendan's school...that has been a big treat for him! and today he's scheduled to go on a wagon ride through the hospital...he's received a few balloons and stuffed animals and lots of notes (you can log onto hendrick's website and send corbin an email & they'll bring it to us...here's the link: http://www.ehendrick.org/emailapatient/index.htm)--i read every single note he gets to him and then we hang it on the wall...he's also gotten a few pictures (which he LOVES)--both hand-made and also poster-type ones...he's so visual and loves to see the spider-man, veggie tales, and iron man hanging on the wall!

as of last night, his breathing treatments are prn (as needed)...and so that's another good thing. he loves the treatments & seems to respond well to them.

so, how do i think he's doing? i think he's getting better, but is still a pretty sick kiddo...like kelly said to me "he doesn't care at all that he has an iv in his arm--if his was feeling good, that thing would be driving him crazy & he'd be fussing about it"... the fact that he's refusing even the things he loves (like icecream) also tells us that he's not feeling good.

it's hard for me to believe that i did it, but i let kelly stay with corbin last night so that i could go home and get some rest (as well as have some time with brendan)...i'm feeling better today which is good. i've been having muscle spasms in my neck & back which cause me to have a bad headache...so that's been challenging...

thank you, thank you, thank you for all your prayers and well wishes. thank you for the notes you have sent to us through the hospital, the phone calls, etc. i will keep you posted on corbin's progress.

blessings,
candace
p.s...we heard the nurses say a few minutes ago that the children's wing is over-flowing and they're having a hard time getting enough nurses to cover...there's a lot of sick kiddos right now with rsv, pneumonia, and even the rotto virus has started up...yuck!

Update on Corbin--Tuesday, February 10, 2009

well, it's tuesday & we're still in the hospital...corbin is still very sick...we still can't get his temperature to stay down. it was a really rough night last night and both of us are exhausted...so we're going to keep him on phenergan all day to hopefully knock him out so he'll rest and let his body heal. they did more labs and another chest xray this morning...and the doctor, after looking at the 3 progressive xrays says that the pneumonia is only in the right lung and that it looks like it might be aspiration pneumonia (which means that while he was intubated during the tonsillectomy or right after something (spit, fluid, food, etc) went down into his lung)...and the antibiotic he's on is the one they give for that type of pneumonia...at the same time, she's still not convinced that it's not viral pneumonia (he's not really responding to the antibiotics like he should (the fever's not staying down))...but it also could be that they need to increase the amt of antibiotics--which they will do if his fever doesn't stay down today. she's supposed to come by at lunch and check on him again. so how do i think he's doing? he seems a little better today, but then again, last night when brendan came up to the hospital, he got out of bed (for the 1st time in 3 days) and actually played with his brother...so i thought we were turning a corner...but then last night was so rough so it's hard to tell...pneumonia is such a common thing--it's not like it's a rare thing--and it doesn't all mean bad things (brendan had pneumonia a couple years ago and it was no biggie at all)...but i just read on the mayo site that it's the #1 cause of death in children--that's kinda scary... i'm chosing to believe that the GREAT PHYSICIAN can & will heal corbin.

thank you again for all the prayers lifted up on our behalf.

blessings,
candace