Day Two, we will make it through

Day two did not start out to good. After I posted last night, we went to sleep. Around 2:30 am the phone rang. The nurse said that the Gopher had had a seizure and they thought we should come back to the hospital. The doctor asked me a few questions and then we got up, changed and headed over. It was an eerie feeling walking down Fannin with absolutely no cars. Not even an ambulance or people walking around. We made it up to his room and the nurse described the events that led up to the seizure. He had had some trouble breathing so they suctioned out his throat and placed a face shield with oxygen in front of him. He did a little better, but continued to have low oxygen levels. So they suctioned again and gave him a breathing treatment. That helped a little, but he continued to have labored breathing. At around 2:15 am he started having a very mild seizure that only lasted about 2 minutes. They gave him medication to stop the seizure and also gave him steroids to help open up his throat (which might be swollen from the breathing tube used during surgery.) At 4:00am they decided to do a CT scan of his brain to check for possible bleeding. It was quite an event to get all his wires and monitors and equipment on the bed to move him. It is a good thing he is a small boy or there wouldn't have been room for him. The CT went fine and the results showed that there was no bleeding, but he did have a little air in there (so now he is an air-head). The neurosurgeons said that this is very normal after surgery and the air will dissipate on its own. They decided to put him on maintenance medication for the seizure for at least a few days and if everything goes well they will take him off of it. We will speak with a neurologist later this morning about that. He has been very sleepy from all the different medications and that is not helping his breathing. The breathing treatments have helped a lot and they took a chest x-ray this morning. It showed a little fluid in his lungs, so they changed his antibiotics to help prevent pneumonia. They are also going to clean out his nose a little and give him some saline spray and ointment to try and help him breath a little better through his nose. Right now he will stay in the ICU until his breathing improves and they can take him off the oxygen. We are doing the best we can on very little sleep and the doctors and nurses have been super. They have been explaining everything and we are able to stay in the room with him 24/7 if we need to. We took a break at 9:00am to shower, check-out of our hotel and write this. Tonight we are hoping to stay in the Ronald McDonald house that is in the hospital. It is only one floor up from where he is, so we will be closer if he has any more problems. Thanks again for all your support and we will keep you posted.