Levi has been sedated most of the day. He is just thrashing around too much. I beleive it's mainly a side effect of the drugs but they need to be given else the thrashing will cause more scar tissue and stenosis.
He has not lost his sense of humor, however. Once when he was being a bit too wiggly the nurse and I both held him down and said "SSHH" trying to calm him down. He put his tiny little finger to his lips and tried to shush us back then grinned real big. Such a stinker even when sedated! Made us all have a good laugh though.
His cultures all came back clear so he doesn't have an infection. The fever was gone but came back this afternoon. They are just going to watch it. It's very low and they do not seem too worried. We have noticed his blue hue is back. :( As he is breathing more on his own he is taking less oxygen. The pink toes and high oxygen level was due to the breathing the vent was doing for him. We are back down to 75-78 for his oxygen levels and blue toes, lips, and fingertips. We look forward to knowing that in June he will have beautiful pink toes! You don't realize how blue they are until you see them so nice and pink.
Continue to pray that he would not thrash about and that the Lord would protect that trachea as it heals.
Aw, his blue toes! Makes me miss him...
ReplyDeletePraying for that sense of humor to continue, and for a sense of peace to prevail against discomfort.