Dear Son Update

It's been a long twenty fours hours. As I mentioned previously, Dear Son was rushed to a local hospital with breathing difficulties, a high fever and suspected aspiration pneumonia. Dear Son continued to decline, they couldn't keep the fever down and the lungs were getting worse. On Friday afternoon he was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit at the local hospital. Dear Son had been working pretty hard breathing, had not eaten since Tuesday and had been pretty unresponsive. Last night, he was airlifted to the Big Academic Medical Center. The air transport team did a great job and took good care of him. He was admitted to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit where they have worked on him non-stop ever since. His lungs continued to decline and he was diagnosed with pneumonia in both lungs and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. He began failing despite being put on the BiPap (forgive me I am not a medical professional) and 100% oxygen since his arrival last night. At around noon today he was intubated and put on a ventilator at 100% oxygen. He has three IVs currently (one in each foot, one in his wrist)and a central line was added in his hip this afternoon. His blood pressure was declining and unstable this afternoon. They worked hard until 5 p.m. this evening until they could get him somewhat stable. His Dad is at the hospital now and I came home to get some clothes and will return shortly. I do not have access to a pc there so I will try and update you every few days or sooner if I can.

Thank you for all of the nice comments, thoughts and prayers. Your heartfelt concern was much appreciated.