Finally, A Cause!

TJ's upper endoscopy went well, everything looked good that they were looking at, mainly his esophagus.

His vitals are still good except for a fever that has risen to 102.8.

But, a HUGE PRAISE! We know now that TJ has a specific type of staph infection, Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MSRA). There are two types, hospital acquired (HA) and community acquired (CA). He has CA-MSRA, probably related to an infected tooth that was pulled last Thursday.

Hopefully by this afternoon we will know what antibiotic to use against it (see this post for how they figure that out).

[Edit: Approximately 30% of people carry MSRA, but it rarely develops into anything serious. See this post for the correction.]

Here are two places of information on MRSA, from the American Academy of Pediatrics, and, of course, Wikipedia.

This is a direct answer to prayer, we finally know what we are fighting, and soon how to fight it. Fighting symptoms alone doesn't really stop the pneumonia, fighting the CA-MSRA ought to.

So THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR PRAYERS. Obviously this isn't over, a high fever is still bad, but this is possibly the turning point.

Specific prayer requests will be following in just a few moments...