Day 8

Last night was a good night. Hudson had sweet dreams all night. He was taken off the pacemaker around 6 pm last night and his heart has been in sinus rythym and working on its own since...yeah!! Blood pressure/oxygen saturation as well as heart rate all remaining stable so far! And all of his lab values are remaining within normal limits and his urine output as well as blood loss is all within normal range as well so things are looking good! Surgical team came by this morning and have increased his lasix to bring down his fluid retention/swelling in order to prepare to close his chest. They are planning on trying to close at earliest tomorrow, but most likely not until Saturday 5/8/10. He will remain paralyzed until his chest cavity is closed and they plan to keep him intubated for 7 more days. They feel that the tubing is acting as a stent holding his trahcea open so that there is less tension on the suture lines where they did the slide tracheoplasty and corrected his narrow trachea. More good news to come!!!! My little fighter!