15th Update

Samuel had both surgeries last Thursday and everything went great. Friday was a really good day; he was taken off the ventilator and Saturday he was taken off pressure support, so Samuel has been breathing on his own since Saturday morning. He has a trach collar attached which only allows humidified air to blow past his trach and Samuel has to breathe in this air on his own. He has done, and continues to do well with his breathing and we praise God for this improvement. They changed his trach for the first time yesterday and it seems to be healing well.

On Saturday, Samuel started having problems. They gave him pain meds after surgery and one of the side-effects of this medication is that children have problems urinating. This was definitely the effect it had on Samuel. They had to give him extra fluids and a diuretic to make him start going again. That worked for awhile but he is back to having problems again and they have catheterized him. He has had four catheters in the last 24 hours and the last three have become clogged because of sediment in his urine. As of yesterday afternoon they no longer hear bowel sounds and he has not had a stool since yesterday afternoon. At 4:00 on Saturday is when he began having problems. He was moving around a lot; his heart rate, blood pressure and temperature began to rise so they thought he might be in pain; they gave him more pain meds which is probably a big factor in why he is having the above issues. Samuel has had a fever for the last few days and they have him on antibiotics again; they believe he has an infection from the surgery.

Please pray for the above issues,
Yancy