Okay I have been getting tons of questions and texts asking about Corey and while I am happy to answer them, I decided to write this blog to let everyone know better what is going on.
About the first week in september Corey was feeling really sick. We have been to doctors and then to the emergency room for tests. They did Xrays and a ct scan and couldnt find anything. A few days later we went and had an EGD done and he had a really inflamed stomach. While all this was going on Corey was just getting sicker and weaker but still refusing to go to the emergency room because they couldnt find anything anyway.
Last saturday the 11th he was unresponsive and so we called the ambulance to come get him. They tock him to Davis hospital because it is the closest and Corey was so critical. They worked on him for about 2 hours trying to stabalize him when the decision was made to transfer him to a better hospital with a better ICU.
We got him transferred and they figured out he has a sepsis infection. They started him on tons of antibiotic to fight what ever might be causing the infection. His blood pressure has been so low they cant find it. I have seen it about 30/15ish. They are giving him massive amounts of meds to bring it up and that also raises his heart rate. Coreys heart rate got so fast and out of control on sunday they had to do CPR and shock him 3 diffrent times. He always comes out of it pretty fast but sunday they didnt think he was going to survive. His white blood cell count was up about 28,000 when normal is about 11,000. He has had a fever of about 105. They sedated and eventually paralized him to help his body heal and fight the infection. His kidneys shut down and he has gained alot of fluid and is really puffy. On sunday they had some serious concerns about his heart. (He has had Congestive Heart Failure for the last 10 years). They ended up putting a balloon pump around the artery in his heart that makes it pump more efficently. It give Corey an extra 2 liters of blood per minute to circulate through his body. They also put in a cardiac catheder which is wire that go through the artery in his chest to his heart that tell us exactly what his heart is doing and the pressures in his heart. They have him on a ventilator breathing machine because he wasnt breathing on his own very well. They do lung treatments about every 4 hours because his lungs work extra hard to try and help his weak heart.
He stayed pretty stable and everything looked pretty good on wednesday and thursday. On thursday he was able to open his eyes and look at us for a few seconds when we would go see him.
Then thursday night he started back sliding and his blood pressure dropped low, his heart rate went to high, his fever came back and his white blood cells went back up. His oxygen levels also dropped again. He had also gained about 50 pounds because he hasnt been peeing. So this morning they put him on an IV dialisys machine that is pumping the blood from him into a machine and seperating the fluid from the blood and then puts the blood back and the fluid goes down the toilet.
The doctor says he is holding his own setbacks are expected during an ICU stay and they are hopeful.
We greatly appricate all the support and prayers we have recieved from everyone. Please continue to keep him in your prayers and I will continue to update everyone as things go on.
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