Another ambulance trip to the big house

Today has been an interesting day!
Let me start with the good stuff, since Jax always is the news, overshadowing the other boys. Carter made the superleague team!! He is now a Devil, fits perfectly, don't you think? This team is competitive, they travel and do tournaments, he's going to love it. One of the dads we sat next to, whose son also made it, said that Carter was going to be a killer catcher when he got older. He said not all players can catch, and you can tell from an early age the good ones. He knows because his older son is a catcher for his high school team. I can't wait to see how he progresses playing competitive!

Ok, on to Jax. I noticed a couple of days ago that his ear was super red. He had a little sore on there from laying on that side, and it looked infected. Wednesday night he went way up on his oxygen, and didn't sleep well at all. Thursday morning the ear looked worse, so I drew a line where the redness ended to see if it spread. Last night he had a fever, and again went way up on his oxygen need. This morning I took him to see his ped. I was a little worried that he had an infection in his blood from the ear. His blood pressure was low, 60's over 30's, and he was pale and lethargic, so she said he needed to go in. She was going to let me drive him there but the hospital had a fit, so we let the ambulance take us.
The ER was waiting in the resuscitation room, his blood pressures continued to be low, so they pumped some fluid in. The strange thing is his white count is not elevated, so we don't quite know whats going on. Cardiology came by, didn't want to push too much fluid because it was already affecting his heart. She wanted milrinone started. They also wanted to put him on the vent because he was working pretty hard to breathe. I guess that's the nice thing about the trach. We can't put him on the vent early to prevent a crash, without traumatizing him too much!
So now we are in the PICU waiting until blood cultures come back. It doesn't seem like a respiratory virus. His chest x-ray doesn't look abnormal from his typical ones. So I don't know what he's doing. Tonight he is just resting. They put in another IV, I haven't heard plans for a central line yet. And we just wait to see what the plan is in the morning!
No word yet on the stool sample we sent on Wednesday either.
This is the first time he's been in a bed, man he looks tiny on there!!