Hospital Food

Loyal readers, promises of picture and video updates from last week will go unfufilled. I write this week's entry from a chair in Children's Hospital (the wonders of an iPhone) where I am spending the night along with Jack. Needless to say there are no pictures to post. The little guy somehow managed to contract bacterial meningitis. There are only 3,000 cases a year in the U.S. but he found a way to be one of them.

After a scary weekend during which he slept and became more and more lethargic, Marcy made the excellent call to take Jack to the hospital. The local hospital was immediately concerned about meningitis and ran some tests and arranged for transport to Children's. After two full days of heavy duty antibiotics, he is starting to come around a bit. The doctors have identified the strain of bacteria causing the infection and have zeroed in on the right medications. Hopefully, he will be up and at 'em in a day or so. We had huge strides today so we are hopeful that tomorrow morning will bring more of the same. We are hoping to be home by the weekend but Jack will still need another two weeks or so of iv antibiotics when we leave.

Lily is doing fine. Shuttling between grandparents and school. Before the stuff hit the fan with Jack on Saturday, she had her first swim lesson and went for a bike ride in the beautiful 70 degree weather.

That is all for now. We will update as news warrants.