Surgery was Monday. Went beautifully...flow is GREAT in his shunt. As far as actual surgery goes Carson was a Rock Star.
Monday night I stayed with Carson while Dave and Mom went to get some sleep. There was suctioning...LOTS AND LOTS of suctioning...deep suctioning. Carson wasn't a fan! His blood gases and O2 kept getting worse. At about 1am the doctor explained that they would probably need to help Carson breath...they'd do "high flow" and pi-pap and if that still didn't work they might possibly have to reintubate, but he'd have to get "MUCH worse" then he was right then. A little later they started "high flow" oxygen. Stayed on that for about an hour and it didn't get the numbers where they wanted them. Then they started bi-pap, its the machine people with sleep apnea use. It's a big mask that pushes the air into the lungs. That still didn't work so they decided intubation was our only option. He is sedated pretty heavily and only tries to move every once in a while. We are now on almost 48 hours of intibation and they haven't really been able to wean him off at all yet. Every time they turn a setting down his Co2 goes up and they end up putting it back up.
He's had a fever, his pulse has been high, his blood counts are low so they just hung red blood cells and he is +2300 on fluid so they've given his two doses of diuretics to try to get that going. He is puffy! Hardly looks like himself. He pretty much has a terrible cold and just had a very invasive surgery...pretty sure anyone would feel pretty terrible with all that. Doctor said today viruses take 7 to 10 days (not to say he will be intubated for that long). So we're here and we will be here until he's better...It might be a while, but he will get better and that's all that matters.
