Friday, August 26, 2011

SLOW AND STEADY WILL WIN THE RACE

Friday update: Colby had a good night last night. He's getting cough treatments every 3 hours around the clock. They're using some funky new machine to help break up the gunk in his lungs. It's doing wonders! Hard to explain, but it's like his shake vest, but it shakes him from the inside out instead of from the outside in. I can't believe the huge amount of crap he has down in his lungs. Where is it coming from? Will it ever start to decrease? How did he get so sick so quickly? Was I ignoring the signs? What should I have done different? What soups are they offering in the cafeteria at lunch? Does my plant at home need watering? Why does my kid have to go through this time and time again? When will we get home? How much work am I going to have to miss while Colby is in the hospital? When I get my hair cut off, should I get some highlights too? There are so many things you think about when all you're doing is sitting, waiting, praying your child gets better. I feel so helpless when he's on the vent. I feel so helpless a lot of the time.

We've been able to cut back on Colby's pain med some. He took it at 10:30 last night and didn't get it again until 8:30 this morning. He looked very bright eyed and alert this morning (before the morphine). His icky diarrhea seems to have cleared up some. Overall he's doing well. So the plan is more of the same. Keep Colby on the vent. Keep weaning the settings very slowly. Hang out until he's ready for extubation. Then pray like crazy that goes smoothly.

Everyone here is so wonderful. Nurses and RTs who have had Colby as a patient in the past have stopped by to say hi. Mom is here with me now. My sister-in-law is coming over in a bit and Mom is going to head home for the day/overnight. Colby's dad is coming to see him after work and my dad will be back tonight, too. A lot of you have asked how I'm doing, too, and I appreciate it. For the most part I'm okay. Not totally stir crazy and wigging out just yet. My biggest concern is we have 18 days to get Colby home and doing better so I can have my surgery. May seem like a long time, but really it's not. So yeah, that's freaking me out quite a bit. I know, we just gotta take one day at a time. Colby WILL recover and he WILL be the same ole Colby he's always been. That's what matters. Better get going. Won't be able to update over the weekend because the library is closed. Geez, am I the only person on the planet that doesn't have a laptop? THANK YOU EVERYONE, really, for the calls, texts, e-mails, prayers. Can't wait to get home and get back to "normal".


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