Mystery Diagnosis

This past Monday night Max was admitted to American Fork Hospital. Without warning, about 9:30 p.m., he went limp and started turning blue. We immediately called 911 and managed to get some sort of color back by the time they arrived. He was transported by ambulance to the ER where after several inconclusive tests, was admitted to the Pediatric unit. On Tuesday he had two more of the same events, one right when the attending pediatrician was here conducting his rounds. He has had a CT scan and EEG, both of which came back normal, and more than 15 various other blood tests. We are still waiting to hear back about several of these tests, but we do know that his lactic acid lab was a little higher than normal. This afternoon he also had to have an EKG due to slight accelerations in his resting heart rate. As one doctor put it, these episodes and slightly high lactic levels could be 20-30 different things.

We know that when we finally do leave the hospital, we'll be sent home with an apnea monitor and possibly even a heart monitor. We'll have to follow-up with a neurologist at Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City where a MRI might even be necessary. Our little Max has done relatively well throughout this entire process. Many of the nurses have commented that he's a "strong one" as he likes to put up a fight everytime they've drawn blood or changed his monitors.