Friday

Well, I was beginning to think that Friday was going to be my new dreaded day of the week. Who could ever dread a Friday though, right? This morning at rounds, they were concerned with how some of the blood pressures had read through the night so they decided to go ahead and do an echo-cardiogram to see if the PDA valve had re-opened due to stress. If it had this would mean more surgery.     They also wanted to check him out to see if he had a fungal infection as well so they needed a urine sample, blood sample from both the PICC and the central line and they ordered an abdominal ultrasound as well. Once 11:00 hit Mason had something going on with him until about 3 in the afternoon and he WAS NOT HAPPY.  Sitting and watching your child suffer is no fun and it got to the point during the abdominal ultrasound that I had about had enough. He was pushing so hard on his stomach that only 1 week ago today had been cut open and messed around with during surgery. Oh well, I think he handled all the cards that he was dealt today pretty tolerably considering. They were able to go down on some of the pressures on the vent due to good blood gases. The cardiologist had to come back in and re-do the echocardiogram because he wasn't pleased with the picture but there was no PDA valve present which is good news. No surgery. For a Friday. Not saying that we won't have to face this on another day. But let's hope and pray not. Hopefully our little boy will get some rest tonight and they won't have to do too much poking and prodding. We sure do love you little boy.