Friday Update (6/23/06)
Hi everyone. I pray that all is well with you. Today marks three weeks in our long adventure.
I wish I had great news today, but Josh had another big setback. It started off okay - the doctor was teetering on whether or not to do the surgery, but she decided to go ahead with just the trach only and leave the feeding tube for later if needed. She decided this because Josh had a borderline fever last night and his white blood cell count went up a little bit which indicates some type of infection. Probably the pneumonia starting back up again. They started him back on antibiotics this morning and went ahead with surgery as scheduled. Josh went to surgery around 9:45am doing okay, but as they were beginning to cut for the tracheostomy Josh's oxygen level went way down and they had a difficult time getting it back up. For this reason, she did not feel comfortable enough to continue to switch out the ET tube for the trach, so they stopped. They did several things to check to see what the problem was, but they were unable to pinpoint exactly why it happened. I know this is in God's plan, it was just very unexpected for me. Maybe Josh likes that tube in his throat more than I thought he did!!! They also had to significantly increase his ventilator settings, so he will have to slowly come down again which will take a little time. The doctor said they will probably work on decreasing it this weekend. They did a chest xray and it appeared to look the same as the ones from before. The only explanation they have as to a potential cause of why this happened is that the small airways in his lungs could not hold up with the change in ventilators (i.e. the one in his room to the one in surgery) and that a little pneumonia could also be interfering with oxygen exchange as well. Combine these two together and this could happen. So, we will try again sometime next week. It took a little while to get Josh settled back in his room, but once there he was able to pretty much chill out for the rest of the day.
Dad is almost here for the weekend. He made it through the rainy weather - praise the Lord. I will keep you posted on Josh's progress. Thank you again for your prayers. We love you all. I was reminded two times today by a bumper sticker and a sign - Relax, God is in control. I have to keep telling myself this and it does help!
Dad is almost here for the weekend. He made it through the rainy weather - praise the Lord.
I will keep you posted on Josh's progress. Thank you again for your prayers. We love you all.
I wish I had great news today, but Josh had another big setback. It started off okay - the doctor was teetering on whether or not to do the surgery, but she decided to go ahead with just the trach only and leave the feeding tube for later if needed. She decided this because Josh had a borderline fever last night and his white blood cell count went up a little bit which indicates some type of infection. Probably the pneumonia starting back up again. They started him back on antibiotics this morning and went ahead with surgery as scheduled. Josh went to surgery around 9:45am doing okay, but as they were beginning to cut for the tracheostomy Josh's oxygen level went way down and they had a difficult time getting it back up. For this reason, she did not feel comfortable enough to continue to switch out the ET tube for the trach, so they stopped. They did several things to check to see what the problem was, but they were unable to pinpoint exactly why it happened. I know this is in God's plan, it was just very unexpected for me. Maybe Josh likes that tube in his throat more than I thought he did!!! They also had to significantly increase his ventilator settings, so he will have to slowly come down again which will take a little time. The doctor said they will probably work on decreasing it this weekend. They did a chest xray and it appeared to look the same as the ones from before. The only explanation they have as to a potential cause of why this happened is that the small airways in his lungs could not hold up with the change in ventilators (i.e. the one in his room to the one in surgery) and that a little pneumonia could also be interfering with oxygen exchange as well. Combine these two together and this could happen. So, we will try again sometime next week. It took a little while to get Josh settled back in his room, but once there he was able to pretty much chill out for the rest of the day.
Dad is almost here for the weekend. He made it through the rainy weather - praise the Lord. I will keep you posted on Josh's progress. Thank you again for your prayers. We love you all. I was reminded two times today by a bumper sticker and a sign - Relax, God is in control. I have to keep telling myself this and it does help!
Dad is almost here for the weekend. He made it through the rainy weather - praise the Lord.
I will keep you posted on Josh's progress. Thank you again for your prayers. We love you all.
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