Today I got more news. Nathan has empyema (pus around the lung) on top of pneumonia and mrsa. The mrsa bug is very aggressive which you will understand it better after watching the videos that I sent yesterday. tomorrow he is having a surgery where they will put a camera in his side and suck out the pus to help him breathe and get better. He will have a drainage tube coming out of his side for a couple of days. His lung can't expand even more because its pushing his lungs closed. He only has a small percentage of left lung use.
The dr said if he by any miracle he has an improvement on tomorrows CT that they can postpone this procedure. He might be admitted into the PICU for aggressive nursing measures if needed. These nurses are critical care nurses and spend their day doing what we call "tough love". Right now Nathan is hard to deal with and "tries" refusing allot of things. The nurses have to push and make him do those things in which give him pain but in the long run will help him. In PICU they don't play.
Please look at the website below if you want to understand empyema better. Its really hard for me emotionally to explain to everyone over and over.
Please pray for Nathan. I am a mess.
http://www.healthatoz.com/healthatoz/Atoz/common/standard/transform.jsp?requestURI=/healthatoz/Atoz/ency/empyema.jsp
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