Hayden had his morphine discontinued on Friday at noon, though the next two days were very uncomfortable for him he is now doing well.  I think he should have been weened off a little slower than he was but it’s over now. 

His labs confirmed he has a virus called Rhinovirus.  It’s just a common cold type and the doctors don’t seem too concerned, it just needs to run it’s course.

His white blood count went as high as 1.4 but dropped to .8 today, we don’t like to see it drop but fluctuation was expected. 

His food assistance has been discontinued entirely.  He has been eating very well so they felt it was not needed.  Also discontinued are all his antibiotics.  The only thing he receives now is Heparin, cyclosporine, and  an anti fungal.

The next step will be switching his cylcosporine to oral, this is expected to happen tomorrow.

rb

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