Bad Day

So, Johnny had quite the rough day today. The doctors kept him intubated since they were planning to do the second eye surgery tomorrow. But last night he started having episodes where he would stop breathing and his blood oxygen levels and heart rate would drop drastically. Not cool little dude. Not cool. We were there for a couple of them. Worst experience EVER. He has had a lot of mucus secretions from his lungs. They have been suctioning his lungs about every half an hour most of the day. Also, his temperature has been a little high. These episodes could be caused because of irritation from being intubated but most likely it's a mixture of irritation and an infection. He had a spinal tap done (to test his spinal fluid) and his mucus was tested and everything came back normal. So no RSV, viruses or meningitis. Yay! We're still waiting to hear the results from the blood and urine tests. Those tests should be ready in a couple of days. They already started him on antibiotics this morning. I guess they start treating babies for the worst case scenario until they get the test results back. Hopefully it won't stick around for too long because they caught it early.

We went back to the hospital after dinner and Johnny looked a lot better than he did this afternoon. I really hope that means he's on the mend. They're not doing is second eye surgery tomorrow, they'll wait until next Thursday. Hopefully they'll extubate him tomorrow morning. We're just waiting for the neonatalogist to approve it. I think that's what caused most of this. This has been one of the worst days in my history of motherhood. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. But things are looking up. Thank heavens for prayer and the power of the priesthood.