The Miller Memories

I had really hoped that when I did this update it would be good news, but life doesn't always turn out with good news.  At least not right away... Dutch took his last dose of Vancomycin on January 24th at 10pm.  He was still on 1,000mg of Florastor and 2 sachets of VSL#3 and continued on that course until a few days ago.  At the end of the antibiotic he was doing pretty darn good.  He was eating well, sleeping well, and had plenty of happy-go-lucky energy.  He started having cramps about 3 days after the last dose of Vancomycin.  They were only in the morning and seemed to go away after he had a bowel movement so we weren't overly concerned.  We were definitely still on high alert though.  After the the huge let down we experienced with the last relapse Dan and I were not going to get our hopes up again.  Essentially we were hoping for the best but expecting the worst.  Good thing too, because 10 days after his last dose (Monday, Febru...

Towards the end if October Dutch got sick :( He had an ear infection and pneumonia was trying to set in. He was put on a 10 day course of antibiotics (Cefdinir) and we thought all would be good.  Boy, were we wrong. On the last day of his medicine we noticed a drastic change in him. We just thought he was going through a phase; he was clingy, angry, and wasn't sleeping well. Even his teachers at Mother's Day Out (MDO) commented on the change. After about 4 days of this I was convinced something was wrong, I thought maybe his ear infection didn't get cleared up. On my way to pick him up from MDO I called to make an appointment with the Dr. When I got to MDO they showed me something pretty scary. He had just had a BM with a good amount of blood. That night it continued and we went to the Dr early the next morning (Friday). They did a stool test and thought he might have shigella.  We were told to expect a call on Monday, but they called us back on Sa...

Lately it seems like all I do is give medicine. These are all the medications that the boys take each day. Some more than once a day! Baker's stash is in the right. The left is Dutch's side, most are fighting his C Diff. We are hoping it will be beat this time!