Donte has roughly a week before he is scheduled to go to the rehabilitation hospital and although I hope that we stick with this schedule, I am fearful that his stay on the acute Neuro floor maybe extended.
In my last blog, Donte had just moved up in his diet and was now on soft solids. During his weekly report, I was told there was even talk about the feeding tube being removed. I was elated to hear that because the feeding tube is all that is left for him being completely free of anything other than what God gave him. Unfortunately this may be delayed as well. Donte did wonderfully on Monday and Tuesday of this week, but on Wednesday Donte began throwing up everything he ate. He did not eat more than 50% of any of his meals and was put back on tube feelings. The doctor ordered that an X-ray be taken of his stomach to see if there were any abnormalities an thankfully there were none. The only thing of concerned is that Donte has some built up bowels in his intestines (which is what they believe may be causing the vomiting). They are giving him medication for nausea and in addition are administering enemas to induce bowel movements. Today (Thursday) is better, I feel because he only through up once and was able to eat 50% of breakfast. Thy have now ordered a test of his urine to see if there is any bacteria anywhere. As Donte is only complaining of stomach pains and has no fever or pain anywhere else, everyone is assuming that constipation is the most likely culprit.
As a wife it is just really hard to not have a definitive answer as to what is going on. And being that I don't have an solid answer, it leads my mind to run through the worst possible scenario. I am making sure he rests as much as possible and am making him drink a lot of fluids. Hopefully in the days coming that will go away.
Please keep him in your prayers. Situations like this show me that we are not entirely out of the woods.
Stay strong, Stay safe, Take care and Have HOPE!
Kelli
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