Monthly Archives: January 2015

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It’s a good day!

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Isaac has had some really good days!  Yesterday they had him off oxygen several times and today he was off oxygen all day.  Last night they had him on CPAP and tonight he will just be on the nasal cannula.
If the nights goes well, he should be able to come home tomorrow or Saturday.
I was able to take a selfie of us and got him smiling.  Oh I love that face!!
And I can’t help but take pictures of him sleeping!

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Improvement

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Well, Isaac is doing better.  Yesterday he had 3 trials off the BiPap mask.  He was on a nasal cannula and did very well.  Here is a picture of him on the BiPap.

Today he has been on the nasal cannula all day and will be put back on the BiPAP mask for the night.  We are doing a trial, as I write this, with no oxygen.
I can tell he is feeling much better.  He is talking and playing.  I even think he said “Mama”!  Ok, well maybe not Mama, but very close ;-)!

Tomorrow we’ll keep him on the cannula and maybe have more trials with no oxygen.  At night he will probably be put on CPap.  As long as he keeps doing well, they’ll keep weaning his Oxygen therapy.

He even got to take a bath!  Yay!

The dang IV is in the way.  He hasn’t needed the IV for several days, but they don’t want to take it out just in case he were to worsen and need it.

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Moving Up!

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 Isaac was able to move out of his suite in the PICU and up to the Penthouse today!
  
Poor Isaac has the flu, RSV, bronchilitis, and pneumonia.
On Wednesday morning he had a high fever, was so irritated with his BiPap, and getting continuous Albuterol that his heart rate was high.  They were giving him Tylenol and Toredol, but his fever was not breaking.  So, his nurse put ice packs on him and ordered a cooling blanket.  He was also given Ativan to calm him so his body could rest.  His fever went down and he fell asleep and his heart rate came down too.
Thursday, Zane stayed at the Hospital.  Isaac had a fairly good day.  No fever and in the evening they took off his BiPap mask and let him be on a nasal cannula for an hour.  And then of course the mask went back on and he became irritated.  The nurse kept asking Zane what comforts him and of course it’s food, which they weren’t ready for him to have.  The nurse tried to get him to take a pacifier but he knows it’s not food.
I took Emmett to play glow in the dark miniature golf.

And he suckered me into letting him ride this car.

Friday, Isaac was able to be off the BiPap mask and on a nasal cannula three times for a couple hours each time.  He was able to take a bottle each time he was on the nasal cannula.

Saturday, they let him eat when he wanted, so he was on the nasal cannula almost every three hours.  In the evening we moved out of the PICU and into a room on the Pulmonary floor.  We do not know how much longer they want to keep him, but he is moving in the right direction.