Sunday, November 22, 2009

A week ALREADY.....are you KIDDING!?!?!?!

I am sorry that a whole week has passed since I updated. It has been a nutty week for sure.
So a quick update.....
Joshua went to OR on Tuesday, then Wednesday and then on Friday. I am sure that he is getting tired of the anesthesia. The right chest tube clogged and they wanted to place a left one. There was no left fluid so they just placed a PICC line in his chest and changed out the right tube. Wednesday he went to the cath lab. I am THRILLED to report that there is NO REJECTION!!! WHOOO HOOOO!!! This cath will take the place of his annual one that should take place in January. Thursday night his PICC like clotted off so they decided that he had to go back under and replace the PICC line with another one and try for a left drain again. The left drain has put out 85 cc's and the estimate was 75 so we are good there. Last night, however, the freaking right drain CLOGGED!!! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?? So, he will go NPO again tonight at midnight in care we have to put him under again to replace the right drain. *SIGH*
On the plus side. He is PEEING amazingly well. There was a point this week where it had stopped again and they were running out of ideas. If he didn't start to pee they were going to move him to the ICU to administer a drug to lower his blood pressure in the hopes that it would stop the effusion and 'warm' his kidneys up. Thankfully, the night before this was to happen he responded to the diuretic and has been peeing again. His BUN is the lowest it has ever been at 38 and his creatinine went from 1.0 to 0.5. HOORAY.
Today he looks super. His oxygen is actually off for the first time in 3 weeks. He is breathing easy and peeing well. Maybe.....JUST MAYBE.....if he stays stable like this we can go home sooner rather than later. We just need to get his meds all straightened out. Please pray that they don't need to replace that tube. I would love to see it just come out so that he can get out of the crib and play! He has been stuck in his bed for nearly a week and it itching to move around.
I would also like to report that he has begun to be interested....really interested ... in EATING! WHOOO HOOOO. He has been eating applesauce and doing well with it. Maybe tomorrow I will try something else. It is so nice to see him want to try different things. Hopefully he will keep it up.
Tomorrow is the start of a new week and Dr Kemna will be on service. Joshua is always much nicer to her than Dr Law. :-) (I think he likes to challenge his great mind!) So maybe we will be on a homeward bound trail.
Blessings,
Leah and Joshua

1 comment:

mrsrubly said...

how is mr joshua doing w/ all of this? worried and still praying in katy texas! i am so sorry.