Thursday, July 8, 2010

Checking his airway

Well Ethan was put on the high flow nasal canula yesterday. They started him out at 4 liters and now today dropped him down to 3 liters. He has been doing really good with it. He is really cranky though. They think it is from the medication he was given. Hopefully it wears off soon! They have an ear, nose & throat Dr coming in today to check out his upper airway. They will be putting a scope down his throat to take a look. Hopefully they will see what caused him to go back on the ventilator. I don't want something to be wrong but I do want an answer for the cause of it. They have the ventilator ready in his room in case something happens while the Dr. is scoping him. They just want to be ready. They said that he may have a spasm in his airway when they are scoping him which means they would have to put the tube back in. We are hoping that doesn't happen!
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  1. lindsalitaJuly 8, 2010 at 10:07 PM

    Good luck tomorrow Ethan!!

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  2. LoriJuly 8, 2010 at 11:36 PM

    I'll pray really hard tonight that everything goes well tomorrow! I hope to that they can give you an answer to why this happened, but I hope it's an easy solution.
    Missing you guys! thinking of you lots!
    Keeping you in my thoughts and prayers

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  3. Liz, Mike N EllieJuly 9, 2010 at 7:29 AM

    We are thinking of you as always, but especially today!!! Good luck Ethan!

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This blog started as a hobby for many reasons. It later became a way to keep the family up to date on our micro preemie baby, Ethan. Now as Ethan is nearing the 8 year mark with a little sister of 5 years I am finding a new reason to document on this blog.

Last year we were told by the school that Ethan had cerebral palsy, a blindspot and dyslexia. That is what started it all. I started taking him to doctors to find out what was going on and why this hasn't been discovered before now. In April 2017 we were told that he has executive functioning disorder. What the heck is EFD I thought?!?! After the doctor explaining it to us he basically said that if we don't start making changes now he could fall into the ADHD or possibly the autism category. Ok... so now what? What can we do?!? Well this blog is my way of documenting it all not only for me but also to help others find their way thru similar situations.

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