Christopher’s Journey.

We were woken up by a call from the hospital at 6am this morning to advise us that when they attempted the second time to replace the SPC (unsuccessfully), Christopher once again worked himself up into such a frenzy that he vomited up his last feed and unfortunately aspirated some of it into his lungs. Chris was working really hard trying to breath normally, that his Blood O2 levels kept dropping that they took a chest x-ray to see if his lung had collapsed. They decided to use the oxygen prongs to help him along. After a short while they changed him over to the CPAP machine and this didn’t work either, so Christopher is now back on the ventilator. He is likely to be on the ventilator for the next 3-4 days and is on prophylactic antibiotics to try and keep infection at bay. They are also starting on suctioning and lung physio to help loosen the milk and mucus.
Still with the original problem not addressed, they managed to put in a urethra catheter, but unfortunately Christopher was still not weeing much at all. He had to go to Radiology to put contrast in his bladder and they found his wee was leaking into his abdomen from the hole left my the SPC. So they reinserted another urethra catheter that has a balloon on the end so it can be used to seal the hole whilst it heals over. To add to all this drama filled day, his HG (haemoglobin) levels were falling so he is having a blood transfusion to fix that up and also will be giving double shot of Lasixs (diuretic) to kick start his kidneys.
He is now off the Fentanyl and is resting comfortably. I believe that Christopher managed to get through this day with more grace than his parents did that’s for sure. Its been his first set back since he was born, so we have that to be thankful for. Onward and upward Christopher!!!