Post Op Day 5

Keller is 4 months old today!

Today was a better day. Keller was resting when I was able to get to him this morning.  He is still having periods of extreme crankiness.  He will wake up from sleeping and scream in pain.  It takes several minutes to get him calm.  The docs want to make sure that there is no underlying problem in his brain that could be causing irritability.  They ordered an EEG and a MRI.  The EEG is being done as I type.  The MRI will be done in the morning because it's hard to get them done on a weekend.  When I told them about the cyst that was found on CT they were even more compelled to do the MRI.  Hopefully the tests will show nothing and the answer will be that our boy is just really feisty. We are glad, though, that the MRI is going to be done while we are here and we won't have to go through another admission or hospital stay for a sedated MRI.  They are going to do their best not to intubate him tomorrow for the MRI and just use some sedation meds and pain meds to keep him still enough.  In other news his oxygen is off as of this evening as well as monitor that was on his forehead.  I feel that some of his crankiness is pain from the remaining lines and from his chest incision.  His gas pains are no joke either but today they hooked up his feedings through a bag that will allow food in and air out.  There has been a marked difference since that was done.

Sorry to those that are getting tired of seeing my family on your feed, we are hoping to be done with all of this soon too.  Thank you to those that are continuing to pray for us.  We are excited for the day that there is no news.