This morning was a lovely surprise going in to see Aydan. He has been weeing loads in the night and has lost loads of water retention, and his face looks loads better! He almost looks like a sleeping Aydan today :0)
Around 4pm his blood pressure suddenly dropped really low, and his HB levels were dropping too, but they didn't know why. All signs were pointing to internal bleeding, but I felt like some of the doctors were standing around twiddling their thumbs over what to do.
It must be really difficult for them as any type of cuts or new drains could cause him to bleed even more, or trying to move him for a scan could mean a whole new world of problems.
To add on top of this they have been feeding him through his IV drips, one of the bags is lipids, which is a special kind of fat that his body needs, but these fats have not been absorbing properly into his body, and as a result the ECMO machine and the chest drains have been showing signs of the fat and blood separating, so they have stopped that for now.
The ECMO machine has also been struggling, the tubes in his neck have also been jumping, or 'chattering' as its called. They eventually managed to get them to stop by pulling the tubes out his neck slightly.
After many hours of wondering what was happening to him, and being scared that maybe this was the end. He finally started to stabilise. :0)
His HB levels are still dropping though, and he's still on lots of bags of blood and platelets to help keep him alive.
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