March 3, 2006 - Back in the hospital

Ryan is back in the hospital again. Yesterday we noticed he was running a temperature and he was very lethargic and slept nearly the entire day only waking up for 5 to 10 minutes at a time. We saw the cardiologist and she ruled out the heart as a source of his symptoms but advised us to take him to the emergency room. In the ER he had nearly every test possible done. He had a spinal tap to rule out meningitis and thankfully it was clear. His blood work indicated that he more than likely has a viral infection but they decided to admit Ryan to the hospital and start him on IV antibiotics for the next 2 days until the blood cultures come back. He is much more alert today and is no longer running fever. Please pray that this will turn out to just be a virus and we will be home by the end of the weekend.