Around bedtime Bobby's blood oxygen saturations sank to the upper 70s/low 80s. This was not good. So I paged the nurse and she called the doctor. The decided to do a chest x-ray and found that the pleural effusion (fluid around the lung) was back. Unfortunately, the chest tube stopped draining again so the fluid could not get out of the body. They worked on the chest tube again last night and this morning and it appears to be draining a lot better. Even if they put a new chest tube in, they are so small that the same blockage could continue to form. Even more frustrating is that the medicine that they have given him to stop the fluid from forming has not helped. We will see what the plan is for today. The good news is that despite the MRSA concern, they want him riding in the wagon to move that fluid. So we won't be so stuck. Also, our primary cardiologist is the attending physician this week in the Cardiac Care Unit! Keep those prayers up...we really need them!
Rachael
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You all are in my prayers all day. At least you get to get out a little today. Praying he can get all the fluid out soon.
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