Submitted by Mike on Mon, 05/19/2008 – 10:13am.

Just a quick update to let all of you know that Brandon is back in the hospital. Today is day 4 of this stay. Brandon started having pain in his stomach and a fever. He has an infection and is back on the transplant floor. He’s not a happy boy!!! It took five tries at an I.V.(a two hour production of pinning him down) and his whole arm is on a board. Doctor’s are watching him closely as his fever comes and goes. He has been running anywhere from 101-104.6. Mike and I are tired but so glad we are still with his transplant team. Brandon is drinking but is not interested in eating. He is calling his I.V. a “rocket” and when they run anything into it it’s the “gasoline”. As usual anyone that will listen is begged to take it out and let him go home!! They poke him all hours so he has not had more than an hour or two of sleep at a time. They are waiting on blood cultures to come back and will go from there. We will try and update later if any results come back.

Keep us in your prayers!!! Julie