Kamryn snuggled with her baby brother all morning long... Until he puked... then she was done!
Owen has a rough morning. His O2 sats kept dropping into the 50's and freaking me out. Then he puked and spiked a fever. They kept thinking it was fluid building up in his lungs and we were prepared to put in another chest tube. Then his 1:00 chest Xray came back clear as can be... NO CHEST TUBE... Yeah! But, then the questions are raised as to why the fever, low sats and puky??? So we went back to continuous feeds, put him on a tiny bit of oxygen, ran a bunch of blood cultures, got him back on antibiotics IV and put the little buger to sleep. Then at around 1:30 the intensivist came in and said they are bumping us out of our room and moving us to another PICU pod because he is the healthiest one in the cardiac unit. So, we got a new room with a parking lot view... hey, it's better than the freeway view. Owen was doing much better tonight... no fever and his oxygen was in the 90's. They will take off the oxygen, continue antibiotics and take things a little at a time until we figure out what's up with his little body. Dr. Pearl, the cardiologist and the intensivist all mentioned to me something about doing another cardiac cath early next week just to check out his heart and make sure they're not missing something.... NOOOOOOO... we just want to go home. PRAY that things will go smoothly this weekend and we can come home soon!!!! We've been in the PICU 24 days now....but who's counting?Owen is passing the time in the PICU while watching cartoons....he could care less if he's here or at home.
4 comments:
What sweet kids you have. Glad Owen is doing better tonight. Jamie will be in town this weekend, can't wait!
Man, 24 days already! Oh I hope you get out of there soon! We ended up being there for 5 weeks after the Glenn, which shocked us! Everyone said that the Glenn is a "piece of cake"...the worst piece of cake ever if you ask me!!! Maybe our boys have a harder time because of the valve repair & being put on bypass for so long. It sure isn't a walk in the park. But boy you seem to be doing well. You've kept a great attitude! I admire you!
we will be praying for a speedy exit from the pcicu. Maybe the view of the freeway will motivate little Owen to move along. Way to stay soo positive. Glad things are going relatively well.
You are such a cool mom to let Kam ditch school! And it still kills me that she looks EXACTLY like you! How fun!!
And that Owen is such a handsome little fella.
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