Luke's Great Adventure

As most of you know, Luke had the opportunity to spend some time at a very nice, expensive hotel called Children's Hospital. It's a very elitist establishment, only certain kids are allowed and Luke was lucky enough to have MRSA as his ticket in. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, to be exact. The employees there took great care of his every whim and fancy. Be it x-rays, ultrasounds, IV's, a little morphine, blood work, and all the tubes and wires ones little heart could hope for..



As you can see, once his fever was under control, he was his normal happy camera-loving self. And no, his arm is not broken as the blue brace might suggest. That was just to prevent him from pulling out that really cool tube in his arm.



I want you all to know that normally MRSA doesn't require a 5 day/4 night hospital stay. It was a combination of 1) the infection was deep in Luke's skin to begin with 2) lack of awareness on his parent's part and 3) he would throw up his prescribed oral antibiotics. Mix that together and you get a high systemic fever and no improvement. Thus, the IV antibiotics at the hospital. And boy did they give him the superstar of all antibiotics. The all-powerful Vancomycin. I really don't like to think of what this has done for his system in the future. But, at least, he doesn't suffer from MRSA anymore. Just a cold he picked up at the hospital. We like to think of it as his going-home-thank-you-for-staying-with-us-come-again gift.