Regarding the night nurse ~ we voiced our complaints to the head nurse and she guaranteed us that that nurse will not be assigned to Randy anymore. She said she will definitely be talking to the nurse and educating her on things. As long as she stays away from Randy, I will feel a lot better. Tonight, we had our favorite night nurse on. We know that when he is working, Randy is good care during the night, which makes us feel a lot better about leaving him!
Randy rested most of today. I was still feeling pretty worn out, so I just laid down next to him in the bed and went right to sleep. I was so out that I didn't even know his nurse came in and gave him his medicine.
Over the last couple of days, Randy has been having issues with fevers again. They come and they go ~ they don't seem to last very long. At one point we were told it might be because of the fracture near his brain stem that could be causing his body's temperature to be all out of wack. Today, though, they decided to do a lumbar puncture to make sure there are no infections. It scared us a little when they announced they were going to do it because a week ago when the infectious disease doctors wanted to have one done, Randy's neurosurgery team of doctors said no. I told Randy's nurse that I was worried about it, so she had one of the neurosurgery doctors come in and talk to me before they did the procedure. Since Randy can't follow commands on a consistent basis and he doesn't lie still, they had to drug him rather heavily to do the procedure, so Randy pretty much slept the rest of the day. We hung out at the hospital, though, until we knew who the night nurse would be.
They also did a cat scan this afternoon. We should have the results of both the spinal tap and the cat scan by tomorrow morning. They also did some more blood work to test for infections. We won't have those results for a couple of days. I just hope that with all of these tests, they will find some answers.
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