Wednesday, December 9, 2009

He's on his way back!

Time to blog once again. I spent the night with Isaac last night and for the most part it was pretty uneventful. His stats continued to get better. They had taken him off the paralytic so he was moving more often. At one point he even thought he might want to watch Spongebob. Today was anticipated to be the same. We were hoping and praying that with one more day of sleep then may be we could get the breathing tube out.

We had the operating room scheduled for 6pm. Chris was hanging out with Ike while my stomache was doing flips waiting with Zoey. The Doc was looking to see if everything was structurally sound, how much inflammation was still in there and if it was appropriate to take the breathing tube out. Isaac did not need surgery to correct any structural problems. He still has some inflammation which his meds will take care of and they took out the breathing tube. So things went really well. With the seditives he has been on and the annesthesia I really didn't anticipate him being alert so soon. I am now at the hospital with him and things are entirely different. Not easier at all what so ever but different. The very first thing he asked for was a snack. Well he has to wait so long after annesthesia to have ice chips. His first bummer. So he asked if we could go home. He really wants to leave but you can't just go from ICU to home so bummer number 2. And with the amnesia meds we gave him he doesn't even know why he is in the hospital. He's mad at me for not feeding him and not bringing him home so he cried and wouldn't be nice to the nurses. The respiratory therapist came in to give him a breathing treatment and he rolled away from her tucked his face away and plugged his nose. We all explained that if he wants to go home he needs tx to get better to go home. He thinks we are still just a few blocks from home:(

Currently he has fallen back asleep. You can hear him breath outside him room. He is only using a nasal canula for O2. He still has his heart monitors hooked up, his bloodpressure cuff and pulse ox. He still has his feeding tube in (but never actually used it cuz it takes forever to properly put in.GGRRRR). They took out the IV in his hand but left the one in his left elbow. He sill has his pic line and that will probably be one of the last things to go. He is still cathed but he can get that out as soon as we can get him standing. He is still on antibiotics and IV nutrition. He is still getting the vest thingy and the pounder thingy every couple of hours to shake out mucus from his lungs. Stats on his own so far seem great. So he looks beeter. Its nice to see his face again even though it will be marked up for a while. I am so glad they readjusted his feeding tube cuz even though his nurse Ben, was a great nurse--the tube pulled his nose to the side and the tape pulled down his bottom eyelid. OH and another super good thing is he is no longer restrained. He is free to move and get himself comfy in bed. He looks much better but is sad and mad so it still makes me want to cry just as much as when he was immobilized. I am just so thankful his doing better and we are looking at getting out of the intensive care unit(hopefully tomorrow) and onto the pediatric floor. Without setbacks we should be looking at going home soon. Guess I shouldn't jump so far ahead but we want to be home just as much as Ike does. He sure is going to be surprized at how long it will take to get home!

Sorry about the typos. Possibly I'll fix them when I get to a computer.

1 comment:

Annie said...

Poor Isaac:( I hated seeing Malachi have to be in the hospital when he had his appendicitis and this sounds a 100 times worse. I am grateful that Isaac is on his way to recovery. We will continue praying for him. Hopefully you will all be getting to go home soon.