November 22, 2009. Today was Jeremy's 12th day of being in the hospital. He went from the Emergency room to the CCU to the 2nd floor and is now on the surgical floor, it's been quite a journey for sure!

Dr. Perez came this morning and they were able to identify the strep that is in his liver. It started as a normal bacteria that was in his mucus and it got trapped in his appendix(only 10% of ppl that get appendicitis get it from that) creating a blockage and it turned into appendicitis. From there the bacteria traveled to the liver creating the abscesses. Jeremy is on three antibiotics and the Dr. said 2 out of the 3 are already treating that bacteria, so that is good.

At 5am his wbc was 21,000 and his platelets were 1.2 mil. At 11am they went down to 17,600 and 1 mil. He started taking aspirin last night because the platelets were too high and that causes blood clotting.

His kidney are still not doing good. The kidney Dr. said they will monitor his levels and to drink plenty of fluid is the mean time. Hopefully tomorrow there will be improvement and he won't have to have dialysis.

The Dr. said he does not have pneumonia but he has fluid around his lungs(caused by the infection in his liver) and if his wbc goes up or he starts getting fevers again they'll have to put a needle in the drain the fluid.

This morning when Jeremy got back in bed after a walk he asked me to plug his "boots" back in(those are the things that go on his legs to keep the circulation going) and he started singing "these boots are made for walking" haha!! It's so good to hear him singing again:)

New prayer request: Yesterday Jeremy started getting a rash on his back, thighs and feet. Today it was worse and spreading. Dr. does not think it is from the antibiotics because it would be welts that really itched. They did some lab work and we will know more tomorrow.

The LORD is my strength and my shield;
My heart trusted in Him, and I am helped;
Therefore my heart greatly rejoices,
And with my song I will praise Him.
Psalm 28:7