Saturday Evening

They spent a long time giving Jack the feeding tube and his moving his central line. They ended up sedating him again so he his not as responsive as he was yesterday. He was able to confirm yesterday that he was not in pain, though today he does appear tonight to be very tired. Which is understandable with all the procedures he went through this afternoon. They took another chest x-ray to make sure the new tubes were all properly put in.

At this point Jack has also received three heavy doses of steroids to help combat the high white blood cell count and the doctors are still waiting for it to return to a much lower level.

I will post another update if I learn more after morning rounds tomorrow.

Jack Gets Central Line Moved & Feeding Tube

UPDATE 5PM: Jack has also developed neutropina which limits the number of his white blood cells. Doctors are recommending we limit visitation to direct family members only for now. If you want to come to see the family there is plenty of room in the waiting area in the ICU.

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Thanks to Christina for providing me an update!

After the doctor's rounds this morning we were informed that they are moving Jack's central line into his jugular because they were concerned about infection. They are also putting in a feeding tube this afternoon to help give him necessary nutrients. He is continuing the be given insulin to control his blood sugar level now it is going to be intravenously rather then with shots.

A chest xray was done last night and the results showed some improvment but he still has some pulmonary adema (fluid in the lungs). They treated it with lasix last night and he was able to get rid of most of the fluid. Based on his EEG from yesterday they determined that he should be given anti-seizure medication because it would very hard for them to determine if he is, in fact, have a seizure because of his current conidtion.

His blood pressure continues to remain stable with medication. They did more blood to see if he is oxygenating, and they put his ventilator back up to 90% to make it easier for him to breath. They gave him additional platlets this morning but do not want to give this very often because of the risk of developing antigens and having a transfusion reaction.

Saturday morning

Update 11 am - Jack's numbers for white blood cells continues to improve. The resident that took care of him overnight on Wednesday came back to check on him and had Jack open his eyes really wide. Until then he had only been opening them a little here and there. We are still waiting for morning rounds to happen to get additional information.

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Jack is still fairly stable and in the same condition he was yesterday. He still has the mucus issue and they are going to do a chest scan this morning to see the extent. Overnight he was uncomfortable and kept shifting around so they eventually restrained his arms. After that he was able to relax some and get some rest.