Today started off pretty good. I called this morning when I woke up to see where is sats were and he was in the 80s. So we went in for our meeting at noon and instead of it being a meeting about pulling the plug, it turned into a feel good meeting about how he's on the road to recovery. Yea!!! What a turn around! So that was nice...to feel that stupid, freaking hope for the afternoon.They did a surgery around 2pm today to put in some sort of line, I forget what's it's called, that is more stable than the ot
her IVs and PICC lines. It's in his chest and goes up through his neck. They brought the whole OR team into the NICU to do it, including the anesthesiologist. That went fine.
Tonight I went in, and his sats were back in the 60s. They did an X-ray while I was there and it turns out his left lung had collapsed. Uugh. So they did another surgery to insert yet another tube, deflate the cavity so that his lung would re-inflate. That worked and his sats went back up to the low 70s.
The first picture is before the second surgery, the second is with the new chest tube and then the x-ray shows the before and after. The left side is the collapsed lung. The right side is after the chest tube was inserted and his lung re-inflated.
Is it possible to be bored of the excitement? Seems like a contradiction.
And now I'm editing a fashion show that's due in a few hours. And I've got a long way to go. It's gonna be a long night!
I have been trying to post comments for days and I finally complained about it to my husband who said....try a diff browser. Guess what? That works. Who knew IE would work better than firefox?? Well, thanks for keeping us up to date. We think about you and your family every day and pray for you. You really do a fantastic job of juggling everything! Hang in there!
ReplyDeleteWow! Poor Seth! Chest tubes are no fun...all our patients have them! I'm glad they got a central line in him though, that will save him a lot of the everyday pokes and prods!
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