The Boo is home!

Latest from Valerie:

We are back home with Ben!!! :-) He was released at 2:pm this
afternoon, after his second set of IV meds for the day. We spent
four days at the hospital. He has mostly played outside all
afternoon, and is his happy playful self.

On Tuesday at the hospital, his nurse said we could take him outside,
so we did. Then a little bit later another nurse said they got a
call from Infection Control and Ben could not leave his ward. We
spent about 1/2 of the time at the hospital wandering the ward with
Ben, stopping to watch and talk to everyone, and being careful as
instructed not to have him touch anything.

The blood test from the hospital and the culture test from CareNow
both came back negative. He was already on antibiotics for two days
before the blood test, and I was told by a nurse that the culture
test is wrong sometimes. They assumed it was Invasive MRSA at the
hospital, and it acted as such with the need to increase the doses
and add additional antibiotics to fight as it was spreading in the
bloodstream. I checked online last night and ran into some scary
numbers the CDC just released two weeks ago; the death rate for
hospitalized cases of Invasive MRSA is 1/5. So scary! We are so
happy our little Boo is Okay!!!!!!