25th November 2012

Today Aydan's BP has been behaving slightly better and not as low as it had been yesterday.

They have put him back on a ventilator on a really low level (around 6-10 gentle puffs a minute) The idea is that they are starting to help his lungs out a bit as they are very stiff from not being used for the past few days. They will gradually increase this over the next few weeks so that his lungs will hopefully be ready and working again in a few weeks when he's ready to come off.

This morning they did an ultrasound on his belly and chest to see where this internal bleeding was. It seems that he is bleeding slightly into his belly, but at the time it was only small pools, so it shouldn't be a problem, but they are going to monitor it to see if they get any bigger.

He is still having a lot of blood bags and platelets put into his body, and his chest drains and one of his cannula sites has started to bleed again. But after the scare of the internal bleeding (which is still ongoing) I'd rather him bleed outside his body so we can see it!