amymarie's Journal

My nephew is not improving.  The doctors say that parts of his brain is sleeping even though he is awake.   Basically his brain is not telling him to urinate.  Its not a problem with kidneys or anything.  He has a catherter in.  Same thing with being able to swallow his brain is just not telling him to swallow.   And his brain is not controlling his body temperture any  more. His temp. is very low.  They have like 8 blankets on him and wrapped all over him to try and keep his temp up.  Pletlet counts are still low around 40,000.  I think they are supposed to be about 120,000.    The doctors put a feeding tube down his nose yesterday.   Was risky because of chance of bleeding out due to platelets being so low.   It doesn't look good at this point.    So please keep praying for him.