{"id":205,"date":"2007-10-17T23:03:45","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T07:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/?p=205"},"modified":"2007-10-17T23:03:45","modified_gmt":"2007-10-18T07:03:45","slug":"october-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/?p=205","title":{"rendered":"October 17"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"october-17-015.jpg\"<\/a>OK so I wrote out the whole story, read at your own risk.\u00a0 In the midst of it all Greyson still took some pretty cute pics.<\/font><\/p>\n

So today was the big day for me to hold Greyson.\u00a0 Unfortunately it was not the greatest day.\u00a0 We got to the hospital and learned Greyson did not have a great night.\u00a0 His blood gas report was not good but they said I could go ahead with the Kangaroo care.\u00a0 Well I held him for about half an hour when his oxygenation level fell (for the second time during me holding him).\u00a0 I asked the nurse if we should put him back in his isolete (we had talked about needing to do that if they dropped after the first time).\u00a0 She thought we should so we put him back in his isolete.\u00a0 Well that’s when his oxygenation level really fell.\u00a0 We’ve seen this before so at first it wasn’t that dramatic.\u00a0 She used the vent and gave him some extra oxygen and some manual breaths (you can do this by pushing a button on the vent).\u00a0 Well he didn’t respond and his saturation level continued to fall.\u00a0 This was soon followed by his heart rate.\u00a0 Greyson’s heartrate shouldn’t be below 120 beats per minute.\u00a0 As I watched the stats I saw his heart rate drop down to 43 before the monitor no longer recorded anything.\u00a0 Now Stacy and I were watching as they took out his vent tube and breathed for him through a bag.\u00a0 I’m not really sure why but none of the monitors that we usually look at read anything.\u00a0 By this time there were about 5 nurses close by and the neonatalogist was in.\u00a0 Soon some readings came back up on the monitors and they were in the normal range.\u00a0 The dr. said they would have to intubate him again (place a new tube down for the vent).\u00a0 We went and waited in the waiting room until it was done.\u00a0 The Dr. said it was obviously not a good situation, but does happen at times if the vent tube moves or gets blocked for some reason.\u00a0 All in all he felt it was not related to me holding him, or really anything but unfortunately is just one of those things that can happen with someone as small and fragile as Greyson is.<\/font><\/p>\n

So he recovered pretty well from that except his blood pressure was running really low and when they took his blood sugar it was really high.\u00a0 They decided to give him his blood pressure shot early but ended up waiting to see what happened as his blood pressure was going up and down a lot. <\/font><\/p>\n

So after lunch when we got back for his care Stacy changed his diaper and the nurse had done all the other stuff she does.\u00a0 One of those was to draw another blood gas.\u00a0 This one came back even higher than the one before it which meant it had gone from “bad we can live with” to “we need to do something”.\u00a0 This led to them changing him to a new vent known as the “jet vent” because it makes alot of noise.\u00a0 Basically it is a high frequency ventilator that keeps the lungs inflated and vibrates the air really fast which forces the oxygen in and the co2 out.<\/font><\/p>\n

OK so Stacy and I finally went home to take her to the Dr. to get her infection looked at (still having some trouble with that, although getting better).\u00a0 when I called to hear how things were going I got a pretty good report.\u00a0 Greyson was on room air again (21 percent oxygen which is good) and his stats were all really good.\u00a0 His blood pressure was holding steady at a good level.\u00a0 His blood sugar was down to 126 which is good for him.\u00a0 His blood gass showed improvement so hopefully things will be OK now.\u00a0 There is no way to know at this point how long he will be on this vent, they said it could be a couple days or a couple weeks.\u00a0 Basically he will have to get weened off this one and put back on the other one and then weened off of that before he will be vent free.\u00a0 <\/font><\/p>\n

So while it was very tramatic to Stacy and I, Greyson seemed to handle the whole day fairly well.\u00a0 He had some moments but recovered far quicker than we did.\u00a0 They tell us all the time that there will be good days and bad days, we are really praying for a lot more good days.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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