Sooo Hectic

Things have been in an uproar this past week and a half. Jacob stopped an antibiotic on the 7th for step throat. It was Ceftin...On Tuesday he started with blowout diahreah. It was awefull! School was affraid it was contagious, and they said he had a feever. Ok out of work I was for that day, and off to get him. Got him home and it was bad...but no feever? Well low grade, but that's "Normal" for our boy! We 'thought' it might be the CIB added to his feeds to up his calories. So we cut that out and added in banana's... and LOTS of them! At least they were the high cal ones and it almost made up for the lack of CIB in his feeds, by cutting that out we were missing 260 calories. The next day seemed better....we were ohhhh so hopefull that we found the problem. Then school called again, and we called his gi. Gi said they had nobody in the office to see him, and we explained how quickly he can dehydrate, and the last time we saw him like this was a 3 day admission to CHOP. They said to take him to the ER. So Frank left work this time...he had a 100.3 temp when he got to the ER, but again, that could be very normal for Jacob - 99.6 to 100.8 is his NORMAL. Sometimes it's hard to tell what is sick and what is Jacob.

They have determined that he had a severe allergic reaction to the Ceftin that he had FINISHED on the 7th. He had no problems while on it, but apparently it kills the 'good' bacteria in the digestive track. And with his compramised GI system it threw him all out of wack for lack of a better term. So we are giving him culturel for a few days to get him back in order. And we're down 2-3 a day. So he get's to go to school with a note tomorrow!

Tuesday is his IEP at school, wish us luck everyone. We are a bit nervous, there are some things he needs, and with his Autisim it's imperative that he get's the therapy he needs. But i'm worried that with him talking some now they will think he doesnt need it. I also sent a note to school on Thursday asking how he's doing in the lunchroom. It didnt have to be a long answer. Good, bad or otherwise would of been fine! What did I get back? "his IEP is on the 16th" NO DUH!!! I was there when it was scheduled! UGH!!! I'm so Praying for a good day.

Good news though, even with 2 illness he's stayed ABOVE 30 pounds! He almost dipped below...and after getting him over 31 it's still a huge loss, but at least he kept over 30 :)