We're back to the point where no news is good news. Andrew has continued to be stable and calm. He's still on both the paralytic and the sedative, so he hasn't been awake for a while. When we arrived at the hospital today, the unit was closed for a procedure on another baby. A half-hour event turned into an hour and a half, and by the time we got in we had about twenty-five minutes before we got kicked out for shift change. Fortunately, he's pretty boring when he's passed out.
Tomorrow they're going to start doing tests to figure out exactly what's going on with his recent difficulties. First they'll give him a CT scan to get a better picture of his lungs, heart, and other internal organs. Then they'll do something called a V-Q scan in order to determine which portions of his lungs are well-ventilated, and which have good blood flow....hopefully his lungs will have both. After a few days, they'll do a bronchoscopy to see if there's anything wrong with his airway...a small camera will be threaded down his windpipe and look for collapses, or what they call a "floppy airway."
Aside from the planned tests, we don't know a whole lot. More as things develop.
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