Thank you, Lord. Miguel seems to be almost out of the woods. It’s looking good.
Thank you everyone for your prayers, encouragement, sympathy, door dash, offers to help transport our kids, and other offers of support and assistance.
Good news first: Miguel hasn’t had a fever for several hours now. He has regained strength, and a semblance of an appetite. It was very scary, but today he ate for the first time in 8 days.
What happened? We don’t know. What seems to have done the trick was a general antibiotic that was designed to treat Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Lyme disease, and other similar diseases. Hospital staff ran all sorts of exams and tests, and we are still waiting on some results as well. They deduced the illness could be an infectious disease stemming from a mosquito or tick bite so they went forward on treatment.
We don’t know when Miguel can come home but with continued improvement I suspect tonight or tomorrow. Today is the first day he hasn’t had a fever so we are very grateful and relieved.
He is pretty handsome and he is all smiles now. As my good friend, Ty, said when he came to visit: “Miguel, there’s easier ways to skip school.”
On behalf of the Beach family, we love you and thank you.