Saturday, February 10, 2007

Okay, so for those of you that may not have heard. Matt is out of the hospital as of yesterday at 4pm. For those of you that did not know he was in the hospital, I do apoligize, I have been a little busy. Matt started feeling sick 5pm on Sunday, I told him he needed to put a smile on his face because the super bowl was about to start. We got home and he had a fever and a nasty cough. Monday he had a fever of 102 and felt horrible, so he called into work and didn't go to school. We were going to take him to Urgent care, but then his fever broke and he started feeling better. I urged him to still go, but he said he was fine. Later that night around 8pm (just as the Urgent care closed) he got really bad, so I called our home teachers from church and they came over and gave him a blessing. Neither one of us got much sleep that night. Tuesday we went to Urgent care and they ran some blood tests and other tests. They gave him a prescription for an antibiotic and we went home. Wednesday morning they called us and asked him to go in on Thursday so they could go over the test results that didn't come back looking great. Matt said, why prolong it, I'll come in today. So we went in, they told us a little and ran a few more tests. They weren't quite sure what was going on in his body. They were thinking, mono, hepatitis A or C, liver failure, enlarged spleen, and other things. So they said we needed to head on over to the ER. So on our way we were to St Vincent. We got in there and after a few hours they admitted him. There he stayed until yesterday. They took LOTS of his blood at LOTS of different times. He doesn't have the best veins for taking blood, so he was in lots of pain with them scouting around in his arm with the needle. They finally came to an idea of what they thought it was yesterday an hour before we left. He has mono, and due to the mono he has pneumonia sp?, he has urinary tract infection thanks to the mono, and his spleen is a little bigger than it should be thanks to the mono. They said that it is very rare for all of this to happen while having mono and him being only 25, but Matt was lucky enough to get all of these. He is improving slowly. We are trying to hydrate him so he doesn't have to return to the hospital. He has now had an entire week off of work and school and is trying to figure out what to do with them both. Does he want to work and take the rest of the semester off or does he want to work and only go to school part time? Who knows, we still have no idea what is going on. Oh yeah, and we are suppose to be moving at the beginning of March. Matt was told he can't lift anything over 20lbs. Oh well, it'll all work out. Have a fantastic day!!!

1 comment:

Erika @ Andover ClOthing said...

Wow, I hope Matt starts feeling better soon. I'll volunteer Mason to lift things over 20 lbs. :)

Let me know if there's anything I can do to help.

-Erika