Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Feb 24, 2010 - We Have an Inflated Lung!!!

(From CaringBridge Page)
Feb 24, 2010, 12:55 am

(Ok I know I should be in bed - trying to play catch up)

Jayden continues to improve & his lung expanded yesterday (YEA!!!) His numbers are excellent & he is just cruising right along and although it is too early to say he has seen the worst of it we sure hope that is the case. He is also taking some breaths on his own, another good sign. He has started to clear the waste from his system & the puffiness from yesterday is already getting better.

Alicia made it up for about 30 minutes yesterday but today was out of the question. The spinal headache is relentless. She is going into the doctor tomorrow where I am going to make them do SOMETHING!

I am also adding a picture of the machine that is saving his life & one of his nurses inspecting the machine. They have to do that several times a day to make sure everything is working as it should. He has one nurse that just watches the ECMO unit & one that watches over him. It's kind of interesting how it works.

Daniel & I got to go up for about an hour. It was a really nice visit & so hard to leave.

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