Last night we had a night of NO fevers which was fantastic. A nice peaceful night without any problems. I still have a very restless night with the nurses in and out checking Jason's temperature and changing antibiotics and checking this and that. I had to laugh this morning, actually it wasn't funny at the time though. At 5:30 am the nurse came in and after being woken up so many times in the night I was becoming a bit grumpy. The nurse said to me "shame are you feeling sick" (because I was still in bed). I said to her "No it's 5:30am in the morning, it's still dark outside and I am trying to get some sleep. I think she got the picture and I wasn't disturbed for the next 2 hours.
Great news again, this morning Jason's dietician came to see us and we weighed Jason and he has gained weight nicely by being on Neocate. When we got admitted he was 14.3kgs and today he was 16kgs. The dietician and I didn't believe the scale even after making Jason get on and off 3 times and we made the male nurse go and fetch the other scale in maternity. That scale also said 16kgs. SO how fantastic is that?? Yay for Neocate. He has been tolerating the formula really nicely I even managed 3 bolus feeds of 200mls at a time and he NEVER manages 200mls at a time. This will make our lives a whole lot easier if he can handle 200mls at a time and we can maybe fit in a extra feed during the day for weight gain. We obviously want to get to a stage where we are back to oral feeding but for now while we are in hospital and trying to get him better we will stick to the plan of the Neocate feeds and once he is better and we are home we can go back to oral feeds again. It's great that the Neocate won't cost R450 a tin at least and we will get a nice discount. At least that will help with our monthly expenses.
We only had two temperature spikes today but thankfully tonight his temperature is normal. We just continue to pray that Jason is healed so that we can go home. I am REALLY hoping that we can go home on Sunday as Sunday is Mother's day and I would REALLY love to spend the day with my two children and my husband. So GOD I know you are listening, it's time. Our stay here is done and it's time for our family to be back together again. No more drips and bloods for Jason, it's time for him to run around the garden and play with the dogs and go to the beach and play with his sister. Time for mommy and daddy to be back together too.
Thank you for all the love and support we are getting from everyone. I read each and every one of your messages. I don't get a chance to reply to all of them but I am reading them all and appreciate all the love and support xxx