Thursday, June 18, 2009

Progress

Ethan had a great night and morning. Other than the fact that he wakes up through his sedation and wants to rip the breathing tube out of his mouth. . .At least he is fisty! We like that. His ventilator support is half of what it was yesterday morning and the nitric is on 3. He should be off the nitric by this afternoon and the plan is to go to CT this afternoon. Also his white blood cell count is down to 16,000. All great news. He is heading in the right direction. I will post when we have results of the CT scan. That will tell us more how his lungs are doing.
LOL-
Heidi

3 comments:

Pete, Ali, Charlie and Rosie said...

Great news - we've been thinking of you all day! X

Anonymous said...

Sorry for the challenging week Ethan has had and for the angst of having to live through it as parents. So grateful that things are stabilizing.

Praying for you in Santa Barbara,
Rolf and Trish

Nicole said...

That boy...always causing trouble :) I've been worried about you guys ever since I read your post on Tuesday. I'm glad things are going in the right direction. Give the little man some love from me and tell him I said he needs to behave. See you guys tomorrow.