I started this last Sunday but haven’t finished it until today…. So it’s the end of the week and a lot of things happened and still a lot more things to happen. Hayley was sick for a bit, then Hayden got sick, then I got sick. Hayden is still feeling ill in his stomach after 5 days which is concerning. His appetite hasn’t come back completely and I was brushing his teeth tonight and he’d suddenly get what i thought would be sharp pains in his stomach cause he’d just instantly cry that his stomach hurts… but only for seconds…. odd. Doctor at the clinic said it is probably a virus.
Today, Gabby and I went to the Southgate Alliance Church with Hayden, Hayley, my mom and my sister-in-law Adriana (“Age” for short, but she doesn’t like it). This is the second week we’ve gone and it was a good place to make our church home since we were going to be here a couple months. Last week the youth did the service and today “Music was the Service” all based on Psalm 23. Both great services.
At NICU today, Gabby and I stopped by around 12:30pm and our friends Jairo and Carolina from Hudson’s Hope came to visit us. Interesting name of the place they live?! They stopped by to say hello to Hudson and stopped by the Ronald McDonald House for some food we cooked up. It was good to see them! Hudson had a good night the last night and all today. His dependency on the ventilator is slowly disappearing. When we left at 5pm MDT today, his oxygen saturation (aka “sats”) was around 80% with the ventilator supplying oxygen at a concentration of 23%! Room air is 21% oxygen so he’s getting close! His sats are at a comfortable level the doctors and nurses want him at which is above 70%. He opened his eyes today for almost an hour and he looked comfortable… probably because they doubled the dose of the sedation drug Medazolam which we weren’t too happy about… but it was a tradeoff to start getting him off the Morphine so we were happy about that and it made sense. They dropped his Morphine levels to a third of the dose he was getting and he seemed good with it.
I’ve been looking forward to seeing him drop the ventilator and start breathing on his own. It’s the weirdest thing when the infants are intubated their vocal chords are blocked and they don’t make a sound! HMMMMMmm… Now when my kids whine, I threaten to intubate them. haha I’m sure Gabby has more updates coming soon so until then 🙂
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