This morning started out really rough. He was having some ventilator issues, respiratory therapy came in and tried some things, to no avail. Then the pulmonologist stopped in to talk long term stuff and the situation in the room quickly became an emergency. The pulmonologist left to get consent papers for an emergency bronchoscopy (the bronch was going to happen anyway, the emergency part...not so much). The floor doc said things might get dicey from there and I would need to leave the room after signing consent. I sat in the waiting room praying healing scriptures the entire time I was waiting. It felt like an eternity, but my husband said from the time I called and told him to get here to the time I called to tell him things were now ok it was only about half an hour. The breathing tube had kinked itself and no air was going in or out. They re-intubated him and didn't find anything alarming during the bronchoscopy. No swelling, no mucus, nothing worrisome. His lungs aren't healthy obviously, and he still has some atelectasis in his lower lobes but by the end of the day today, his lungs were sounding better and we are hopeful.
This was a setback in that now he has to be on the vent longer and in the ICU longer but praise God, nothing that has happened is hugely serious, just little setbacks. I will take those anyday. Although I do hope the worst is now behind us and we are going to begin moving forward tomorrow.
The rest of the day was just resting. Napping. Being thankful. And as much snuggling as we can do given that he's too big to pick up and hold! He's blowing kisses even though he has the vent in and my brother even got a 'peace out' sign from him tonight. He's signing that he's hungry, when's lunch, and his tummy is saying 'feed me'. Tomorrow he gets food. If they don't take the vent out they will at least start giving him nutrition through a tube. But he's hoping for some real food.
He is still fighting fevers. Please continue to pray that they will go away. They took him off the blood pressure meds and for the afternoon was more coherent than he has been so far. He had lots of visitors tonight and said he wanted to stay awake to see them rather than sleep. Physical therapy came and gave his legs a little work out. Hopefully tomorrow, if the vent comes out, he can try sitting up a bit. We are praying for a restful night for the both of us so we can hit it tomorrow with some forward movement. The swelling in his body has gone down after some Lasix and they are doing all kinds of stuff to get his lungs moving to shake stuff loose in there.
Thanks for continuing to pray. God really does have this and we all feel peace about it. Having faith is easy...it's being a mom that's hard -- watching our babies struggle...seeing too much of that in the ICU.
His mercies are new every morning.
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