Caden was admitted to MUSC for observation late Monday night due to low O2 sat levels caused by pneumonia. He is being given Rocephin shots. These are high powered antibiotic shots used to fight life-threatening bacterial infections. Caden has been on these Rocephin shots before. You may remember back in November 2006 when is fever hit 105.4. That was the same day I accidentally pulled his g-tube button out of the hole in his belly.
Caden’s condition is improving. He has not had a fever in the past 24 hours. He is down to 1 liter of oxygen and that should be turned off later this morning. If all goes well, we should be able to blow this popsicle stand within the next 12 hours.
The attending physician just made rounds with his entourage of students and residents. They confirmed what I was expecting. The oxygen will be turned off and if all goes well we will discharge later today.
The visit from the attending and his entourage came to our room right as I was in the middle of changing a Gi-normous poopy diaper. The females in the crowd were impressed to see a man handling such a mess with ease. I have to say that it certainly helps to have a child that will cooperate and display self control. As I was changing Caden, he went to reach towards the disaster area zone below his waist and I said so calm and gently, “Caden, folder your hands please.” And he did just as I expected because he is characterized by following instructions. One of the female doctors immediately responded with a “Wow!” as a result to Caden’s reaction to my instructions.
I continue to be amazed at how surprised people are when they witness children following simple instructions. There’s no big secret to getting your children to follow instructions. It just takes training in times of non-conflict along with LOTS of practice. My lovely wife gets credit for about 95% of Caden’s training. That said, I will leave the rest of the details for her to explain. She has go the itch to start blogging and the subject of self-control training is on her list of things to blog about.
Sherry will soon begin to blog as Mrs. Ozz on The Land of Ozz. We have decided to convert that blog into a shared Osborne family blog where Sherry and I both will blog. I realized just how much work it is maintaining numerous blogs and I have not been writing mush on The Land of Ozz anyway. I also don’t know how many children we are going to have so I do don’t want to build and maintain a separate blog for each child. 😉
I will update again when Caden gets discharged.