We showed up at Boys Town Hospital at 5:30 Monday morning with Parker. He was supposed to get ear tubes, adnoids removed and the ENT and pulmonologist were both going to do scopes.We did all the normal check in stuff - weight, meds he's on, etc. We did both his breathing treatments. They even gave him the cocktail of meds to start relaxing him. It didn't take long before he was asleep on Chris' chest and Chris was watching Handy Manny.
The anesthesiologist came in to talk to us. She had gotten all his records from UNMC and reviewed them from his fundoplication and g-button and was pretty familiar with his history. After doing a listen to his chest for quite a while, she told us that he sounded pretty course and she had a real concern for going ahead. She was going to talk to the doctor when he arrived.
When Dr. Lusk came in, he looked worried. He did his own assessment and listened to his lungs. He said "you just get a gut feeling about these things and I don't want to do this today." He's been doing this 30 years so I guessed we should listen to his instinct. He was concerned with Parker having spasms of his airway because of the breathing tube they would use and possibly have trouble breathing normally after surgery. (If they would have gone ahead and told me that he needed to be admitted or was back on a vent, they would have had to admit me).
So we were sent home. No surgery. We were given another antibiotic to try to help clear things up. We go back and see the ENT on Friday and see where we stand. We are also to keeping doing one breathing treatment every 4 hours until then and the other one twice a day until then.
Hopefully by the end of the week we'll have a new date planned. Time for the little guy to get feeling better. It's been a long, not-so-fun summer. Darn you preemie, on-a-vent-for-7-weeks, chronic lung disease, bronchiopulmonary dysplagia lungs.
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