I am soooo tough!

Hudson has had a rough couple of days. The past couple of days Hudson has been having trouble with his oxygen saturation. Yesterday he had a bedside bronchoscopy with minimal improvement and last night he had some pretty low oxygen levels...so they did labs and cultured some sputum and diagnosed a bacterial pneumonia. He has been started on 2 powerful IV antibiotics to try and knock out the infection. Today, he had a rigid bronchoscopy in the OR with the ENT surgeon and they had a lot of trouble visualizing much because he was dropping his oxygen levels too low. They were concerned for his heart and stopped the procedure. They were able to clean out some pus plugs and have ordered steroids and some other meds for the tracheal swelling...they are also putting drops down the ventilator tube to prevent infection within the tube. He is currently heavily sedated and paralyzed so that he can remain comfortable through the night. The plan is for Dr. Forbess (the chief) to do another bedside bronchoscopy in the morning to try and clean out deeper within the airway..Right now we are all just taking things one day at a time.