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| A little TV goes a long way during recovery... |
We sure have been appreciating all the prayers coming our way ... Mason has had a kind of rough recovery, not so much from pain (they are giving him Fentanyl really often, every 1-3 hrs as needed), just because his intubation was so hard (they had to try 3 times and kind of traumatic on his throat/lungs to do that...so he is real swollen in there and has quite a case of stridor from it (sounds wheezy/barky/loud every time he breathes, kind of similar to croup). He's had 2 treatments for it but so far they haven't done much except prevent him from sleeping (they are adrenaline aerosol "vapo" treatments). He had a very hard time sleeping afterward the entire 24 hours, even when his pain was controlled the first night--they had to keep suctioning his vent because he had a really huge and unexpected amount of secretions/saliva down in it. Of course the constant suctioning drove him nuts. He didn't sleep hardly any from when he woke up from surgery Wednesday (around 2 pm) until after I left (around 2 pm Thursday) so I was really relieved to hear he zonked out after my mom got there and slept well most of the afternoon since. He has been wearing some kind of humidity helmet/hood for the stridor but they took it off this morning b/c he wasn't a fan. Pray his stridor gets better on its own (today so far is going MUCH better both pain-wise and stridor-wise)...and that he can slowly wean off the Fentanyl without a lot of pain or withdrawal. Also, pray LOTS of protection over his IV...it is looking like it might be giving out and if it does he has to get a new one for Fentanyl and fluids since he's not up to full feeds (just on a slow drip of Pedialyte through his G-tube, but that will change to formula this evening, Lord willing). He's already had some dirty diapers so that part is great :) But if his IV dies that will be bad because he is SUCH a hard stick and there won't be much of a way to sedate him for that if his IV gives out. Thank you for praying that it holds out as long as they need it!! :)
Feel better Mason!
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