Wednesday, June 08, 2005
As of tomorrow it will be two weeks since Jacob's transplant and he's finally beginning to come out of the woods.
There were some scary hours a couple of nights ago when his oxygen saturation began to drop again. Our Nurse, Bob, was great. He calmly added a second oxygen line, "blow by" on top of the canula and managed to keep it in place all night.
Dr. Link gave Jacob an utimatum the next morning: he had to get up and moving, to see if he could get his lungs working, or they were going to have to start a bunch of invasive tests. It was hard, but Jacob managed to walk all the way around the 2nd floor corridor, and take a couple of other walks that day, and the pay off is, he's completely off oxygen and his saturation was 97% tonight.
Tonight, Ellie is spending the night with Jacob at the hospital and Young and I are home together for the first time in it feels like forever.
Sleep tight.
There were some scary hours a couple of nights ago when his oxygen saturation began to drop again. Our Nurse, Bob, was great. He calmly added a second oxygen line, "blow by" on top of the canula and managed to keep it in place all night.
Dr. Link gave Jacob an utimatum the next morning: he had to get up and moving, to see if he could get his lungs working, or they were going to have to start a bunch of invasive tests. It was hard, but Jacob managed to walk all the way around the 2nd floor corridor, and take a couple of other walks that day, and the pay off is, he's completely off oxygen and his saturation was 97% tonight.
Tonight, Ellie is spending the night with Jacob at the hospital and Young and I are home together for the first time in it feels like forever.
Sleep tight.
# posted by Ann @ 9:52 PM 
