Baltimore: Day 41 (August 27)

The last few days have had ups and downs but Robbie is doing well and we are hoping to get the heck out of this place sooner rather than later. The downs have been the fact that he has had high fever for about 36-48 hours, spiking at 103 degrees. They found an infection in his blood but can't seem to figure out exactly what is causing it, so their plan of attack is being delayed. We won't know exactly what is in the blood until Tuesday because they had to send it to another lab. We are now trying to brace for Hurricane Irene, which is now supposed to be a Catergory 1 and possibly just a tropical storm once it hits here in Baltimore.

The good news is that Robbie is doing well and that we will start taking all the foreign objects out of him on Monday. He currently has a stint in each kidney, a SP tube in his bladder and the fixator on his pelvis. We start by taking a stint out on Monday, another stint on Tuesday then do an ultrasound of the kidneys to make sure they are working and a pelvic XRay. If the XRay comes back good they will then take out the fixator either Wednesday or Thursday. Once the fixator is out they will clamp off the SP tube to make sure the bladder is draining out of the proper place. If everything is working, then the SP tube comes out and we are out of here. Once we are out we might have to stick around Baltimore a few days but at least be out of the hospital. So, we need extra thoughts and prayers that all the draining is good and that the XRay looks good too.

Last night Aunt Janell flew in from Prague to be here in Baltimore for the week. Mimi also came in on Thursday and stayed with Robbie last night. We have been blessed that Mimi has given up every weekend since we have been here to help give us a break and spend the time with Robbie. It has been a huge help and really has given us the breaks that we needed to get through this. We also want to thank Grandpa for coming out last weekend and also giving us a break, didn't get to do that this week in the blog.

We also want to thank everyone that has sent us cards and gifts, we are now going to hvae to get a Uhaul to get everything back to Kansas City. We just want to let everyone know that if you are planning on sending anything that you may want to just send it to our house in Kansas City, in case we get out of here next week, we don't want packages sitting in the Ronald McDonald House and we aren't there.

Now we are just going to brace for Irene and see how a hurricane compares to a midwest thunderstorm/tornado.