Hospital blues

I posted about our situation earlier and just logged on and it wasn't there. So I'm going to post this again. I'm really hating this blog as it never seems to post what I want it to.

Zachary was having red stools that we believed to be bloody. We saw our family dr who ordered a CBC to check his blood counts. While we learned that his stools were not bloody, the red color was from the antibiotic he was on, Omnicef. We did discover that Zachary is severely neutropenic (too low of a neutrophil count in his white blood cells) which makes him highly susceptable to infections. We were admitted to the hospital with a neutrophil count of 1. It must be 5 or higher before we can be released. Also we have to insure that no ill people come into contact with Zachary because his immune system could not handle an infection. It could possibly kill him. My family is coming to town tomorrow to basically sterilize my house from top to bottom to ensure that when we do take him home, he doesn't become ill from anything in the house. We also will not be able to take him out into public for quite a while. He will require frequent cbc checks to ensure that everything is turning around.

Initially there was the fear that this was caused by leukemia, but the doctors all believe that it is from a virus that just wiped out his immune system. His immune system will rebound on its own, we just don't know how long it will take. There is a hematologist looking at his blood smears to ensure there are no "leukemic" looking cells. I will keep you all posted, but please keep us all in your prayers, we need them.