Henry update

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My last post was at 230 AM and it's now 730 AM, but in those few hours he has been fairly stable. He has had a few poopy diapers, but it seems to have slowed down a bit. His catheter has a temperature probe in it (isn't that genius?) so his temperature is being constantly read on the cardiac monitor. It's up again, so they're giving him Tylenol.

His abdominal xray was negative. His blood work that they did when he got to the PICU showed that his BUN was really low and had gotten lower then when he was in the ER. So, despite the mass quantity of IV fluids he's received, his dehydration got worse. No one was particularly surprised by how low his BUN was though, because he looks worse then he did when he was in the ER and obviously they knew that or he wouldn't be in the PICU. They just drew his blood again, so we'll know how he's doing now, soon.

The wound care nurses are seeing him this AM to talk about caring for his extremely sore bottom. The docs and nurses are going to round on hism this AM and I'll let you know what info I get from that.

When he woke during the night, he was particularly peeved w/ the catheter.

He hasn't had any more fluids by mouth, so we're going to see if he can keep something down this AM.

I'm hoping that he can be moved again to a regular floor sometime this afternoon, but they said he just got to the ICU and we'll see...
He is getting LOTS of attention.

That chair Eddie is in is the one we took turns w/ during the night. There's also a parent ICU lounge w/ lots of couches and lots of parents sleeping on couches. Eddie found an empty one and slept on it a bit last night. They have a parent ICU shower, too.
More later...