Hey Civi / Pam

I know what you're going through. I just brought my 14yr old home from the hospital yesterday after a grueling 19 days in. My son was diagnosed with Crohn's 7 yrs ago. He's had almost no symptoms since we caught it at such an early age and little developed in his body early on. He went in for a resection on 11/7, and after a week had to get another resection due to a blockage and then 3 days later had to fight off 4 days of high fevers 103-104. After trying different antibiotics for the fever, the doctors did a catscan and that showed 2 absesses. The next day they did interventional radiography. ( The radiologist uses a syringe under x-ray to extract the fluid - but no cutting). His fevers went down but the infectious disease doctor determined that the combination of the 2 antibiotics were also causing the fevers to linger. They changed his antibiotics and the fevers subsided. It was a long 19 days. Thank G-d he's home, eating, moving around, and doing better. I strongly believe that part of his recovery was from the knowledge and experience of his doctors. I've seen the difference in the past.

(Illness experience is an unfortunate route for all of us to learn medical knowledge.)

Civi and Pam - I wish you the best for you and your families. Hoping for a quick recovery.

Jeff