Playing Doctor

48/26. That is Brett's blood pressure right now at 12:15AM. He has yet another UTI. Unfortunately, UTI's are going to become very common since he can't urinate on his own anymore. We have to catheter him every four hours, and can't seem to push all the urine out of his body, which leads to more UTI's. He had a fever of 103 earlier today.

When his body has to fight off infection, it takes energy from him that he will never recover. His "energy tank" gets a little smaller with each sickness. Plus, the seizures are still here, and that takes a lot of ouf him as well.

Lisa has been up all night with him for the last two nights, so I am going to stand guard tonight. I lift all my children, but especially my little angel, up to Jesus and ask for His blessings. My heart hurts.

Yet another QB in heaven

Well, my blog has turned out to be an obituary of sorts lately. Brett's pediatician, Dr. Tony Amador, died yesterday. He had a stroke last week and didn't recover.

Tony meant the world to us. He was the only one who believed us when we kept saying "something is wrong with Brett". He was our "Quarterback", getting all the other Doctor's and specialists in line. He kept Brett's paperwork from all the other Doctor's organized at his office. He often lead the charge to speed up tests and visits so we wouldn't have to wait so long to get Brett looked at by the other Doctors.

He was Lisa's calming influence. Sometimes he was the only one to show compassion, as so many other "specialists" are really scientists and have no bedside manner or belief in the Almighty. We needed and appreciated him so much that Lisa would actually drive to Marietta for Brett's pediatric needs even after we moved all the way across town to Suwanee. In fact, that whole PAMPA group has been one of the major reasons why Brett is still with us.

At least we can take some comfort in knowing that Tony knew how important he was to us and to Brett. Every visit or phone call we let him know. The last time Brett saw Tony was only two weeks ago. Lisa told Tony that he was invaluable. Tony, we don't know what we are going to do without you, but we sure know where we would be if we didn't have you.

God bless your family, Dr. Amador. Jesus is the Great Physician, and I am sure he appreciates the way you have looked after His children. Especially the "special" ones.