The doctor cleaned out clots from both of Riley's drain tubes. These silly things are about the size of a piece of spaghetti and they're constantly getting twisted and occluded. Drainage today has been very low so a chest x-ray was ordered. The x-ray looks very good - there's very little fluid remaining and what's there seems to be draining properly. If Riley hadn't had the problems he's had, they'd remove his chest tubes tomorrow. But given our ups and downs, they'll wait until at least Wednesday. Nobody's said anything about going home yet, but we imagine we'd go home no more than 2 or 3 days after the tubes come out.
Riley won't need the IVIG mentioned earlier. To counter our excitement about possibly going home a different doctor told us they'll look again at IVIG "next week."
Monday, April 17, 2006
Chest x-ray looks good
Posted by Mother in Chief at 4/17/2006 06:40:00 PM
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8 comments:
My best wishes to all of you. As a caregiver this blog really hit home.
All my best,
Amanda
Well I am sending out good energy to all and hoping that the next time I see you will be at your house ! I am so excited that he is eating again ! What a resilient little guy !
Love Joce Tom Naomi
So good to hear good news! You guys have really been through it. Sending good thoughts for the upward trend to continue!
Things sound good - great to hear that the little man is feeling happier and eating now, that's got to be a big step in the right direction. We have all our limbs crossed that those drains can come out sooner rather than later.
We're thinking of you
Loads of love
Jude
w00t! w00t!!!
why are they talking about IVIG? if you have any questions about it -- i give it to isaac regularly -- let me know. do they think he was sick with some virus or some such?
Sarah
Hey all:
We've been away on vacation since last Tuesday, so our connectivity has been very limited. But we haven't stopped thinking about you. It's nice to hear that Riley's eating well again. We're praying that you'll all be home soon!
Sounds good. Every day is a new day filled with new hopes....YIPEEE...will check the internet later again today at this nice book cafe....Love ya all
Grammy and Wayne
Very glad to see how much progress Riley has made!! He's the man! Hopefully you'll all be going home soon.
-jeff
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