Saturday, February 9, 2013

Brody started bleeding again from his stomach so they changed to a bigger tube because the blood was coagulating and not coming out of the tube. They reduced his heparin again, the drug they are giving to thin his blood. That is what they did to stop the bleeding before, but the risk of not having enough blood thinner is clotting in his ECMO tubes. The doctor was in and was willing to accept some bleeding in order to not turn down the heparin too much that they start seeing clots. He said the problem at this point is pesky but not of great concern. They are giving him more blood to replace what he is losing. He has started twitching, but he is at the maximum amount of pain medicine and muscle relaxers, so they were letting him twitch for a while. The doctor authorized a little more morphine. We are confused now because the day crew seemed to think he was weaning from ECMO but the doctor that just came on said he was on the same level of support as he was last night and he would not be weaned for another several days. We will seek clarification on this in the morning. Please pray for Brody's cousin who came to this hospital today, also with RSV.

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