Enjoying a good day

Maddox is making progress. Today was a good day for him.They are continually working on weaning him off of his meds and ventilator support. It is a constant process of steps forward and steps back, but today we took steps forward.



Yesterday we had a little scare. The IV Maddox had in his head wasn't working and needed to be taken out. The nurses took it out, then a little bit later, after repositioning him, they discovered that the central line he had in his neck had come out and was just laying on the bed next to him. That meant he had no access to his medications and they weren't sure how long that had been the case. Maddox has been difficult to get an IV into and so pretty quickly the nurses called in the experts and had 6-7 people in the room buzzing around his little bed. I sat off to the side praying my little heart out that they would be able to get an IV in quickly. They first tried to get one in his head. No luck. They finally were able to get one in his foot. Amazingly he was able to maintain his heart rate and his blood pressure just fine, but they noticed that without the medication his profusion was not as good. His feet and hands turned a little more purple than pink, but soon returned to normal. They also decided to put a central line in his femeral vein(groin area) to replace the one that was in his neck. Overall he did wonderfully, but it was pretty nerve wracking.



Maddox smiled for the first time today. He did it several times and I luckily got a picture. He must have been having nice, drugged up dreams. Gotta love those morphine and methadone induced happy naps.


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