Saturday

Nothing went as planned yesterday.

The attending in the PICU thought James should be strong enough to just come off the vent without being weened...not so much. That idea crashed and burned and resulted in going back to full-strength vent settings. Frustrating because the weening was going well until that point.

James' hemoglobin was low and he's been pale so it was decided that he needed a transfusion. He got that last night. His color is much better today.

He is still pretty puffy from surgery so he got another dose of a diretic last night. His arms and legs are finally back to their normal size, but his stomach is still very tight. He hasn't had a BM since before surgery so hopefully that will happen soon.

His heartrate dropped overnight so they did an Echocardiogram to make sure everything was okay there. It is.

His daily chest x-rays have been looking good, but his chest tube is still draining fluid so there's no chance of getting that pulled soon.

This morning he was having really high CO2 levels in his blood. Eventually they found that he had a boogar at the end of his vent tube so he hasn't been getting the airflow that he needs. Once they got that cleared his CO2 levels have been improving and he sounds much better. But the attending wants to test his for RSV just to rule that out. He better not have it since he gets the vaccine every month!!!

Please pray for his health and recovery!