LONG DAY!!!!

Well, today was a crazy long day for Eli and me. As you read in the previous post they were concerned that a blood clot had formed around his central line. Well they did sent an ultrasound tech down to do an ultrasound. However that was inconclusive partly because he was screaming through most of it and partly because the Doctor wanted to have a look himself to see what was going on. So, after that first one about an hour later, she came back with two doctors to do another one. This time I was already holding him to feed him, so I suggested I keep holding him and maybe he would remain more calm (because I seem to be the only thing that makes him calm down). So I held him while they did another one. They said it would be short but it was close to an hour again, while like 6 doctors stood around looking at the screen discussing what they saw. It freaked me out a bit since in my mind hearing that your child has a blood clot is NOT a good thing or a happy thought. Finally they decided they were done and all left. One doctor stayed to explain what went on to me. He said they did see a clot in there. They decided the safest treatment would be to remove his central line right away and start him on injections of another blood thinner. This injection he will have 2 times a day for at least 6 weeks. I asked if that meant we had to be here for that long, and he said, no, that I would be giving it at home! So that sounds like a blast!!! Then after all that another person came in with an EKG machine and did an echo on him to make sure that the clot didn't get down into his heart, so that was another half hour of poking him with gooey wands! I think that one showed the same thing as the Ultrasound, so that's good the clot seemed, at least to me, contained to one vein.

He is currently undergoing his blood transfusion and his nurse said it looks like its doing some good. She felt his color was improving and his stats are looking better. So hopefully having some better blood will help him to not have to work so hard. He is currently resting and we are going to let him hang out for a few hours and get some good sleep in his warm bed. He had such a long and eventful day we felt he needs to just sleep for awhile without getting bugged by us.

As for me, I am planning on spending the night with him tonight because I don't like to leave my babies after they have bad days! But hopefully I will be able to get some OK rest here in his room as today was a big emotionally stressful day for me as well.

Again please pray that this clot is nothing too serious and the medicine will help to allow it to break up and disperse itself back into the body without any other problems! Also I would love prayer for my rest tonight! I have been able to nap here pretty well, so hopefully I will be tired enough to sleep well too (granted I do only get to sleep 3 hours at a time, but that's a given no matter where I sleep).

PS: Hopefully this made sense, I am really tired!!!