Poor, Poor Jackson

Well poor Jackson has had a heck of a month and a half. So we finished his z-pack a few days ago and he was still not acting quite himself. For those of you who need an update about 6 weeks ago Jackson was diagnosed with Strep and he has not been able to shake this thing. Anyway, this weekend we were alarmed when Jackson took a 4 hour nap (which is highly unlike him). And within 30 minutes of waking up he was curled in my lap telling me he was tired and wanted to go back to bed!!! So this morning we called the doctor and made an appointment for tomorrow, as I could not get him in today! A few hours later I got a call from the doctors office saying they wanted him in today! We had had some cultures done last week and when the doctor saw that we were coming back in she read his chart and saw that he had a rare bacterial infection in his throat called MRSA (otherwise know as a staph infection). We decided to do a thorough round of blood tests to find out why this has occurred, because it mostly occurs in patients who have weekended immune systems. So now he is on a VERY strong sulphur antibiotic to hopefully kick this infection and I am PRAYING that it works, because the next step will be IV antibiotics. Please keep my sweet little man in your prayers this week. We really need him to get better. I will post again when we get his blood work results.