Sam has been moved out of the critical ward and into recovery!!! No longer do 10 nurses and 4 doctors come running to every beep. As sam says he has lost weight ( about 15 lbs) and is not strong enough to stand by himself but each day now he gets stronger .He is however well enough to play video games 4 hours straight!! He's on solid food and oral meds and slowly his breathing rate is coming down...he's asleep right now as I write with a rate of 27 breaths per min....normal should be 10-15 . His xray still show the compacted infection in his lower right lung but we are assured this will slowly reduce. His progress has astounded the folk here and at this rate he'll be discharged late this week and recuperate at home...It will be good to have our boy back.
Looking back it has been a gut wrenching ride, and the thing of it is the doctors still really dont know what happened, they call it a necrotizing
pneumonitus caused by mycoplasma. The weird thing is that the mycoplasma is common, probably all of us in the family had it, yet somehow in Sam it turned from an annoyance to a killer without explanation.....according to the infectious disease doctor she has found less than 10 reported cases of this ever having happened. They are now talking of publishing the case themselves....weird.
Again, I can't thank you all enough for all the support and as we move into the final days here in hospital Sam himself will be able to report his progress and respond to you directly at last.
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hey sam I was hoping I could chat with you but your probably off playing video games. it is surprising that everyone in your family had mycoplasma (I can barely pronounce that word)and your the only one that got it turned in to a killer. it is also surprising that there is only 10 reported cases of it. I guess your a rare child!
well hope I can chat with you
Ryan
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