They have said that he will hopefully remain stable on this machine now for the next couple of weeks, and I'm keeping everything crossed that we have no more issues!!!! It's bad enough seeing him on this machine, let alone him having problems on it too!
He's started back on the proper chest physio today too, not quite so brutal, but its a medium hard shall we say!! They have managed to get lots of gunk off his chest, and have said that it looks as though it is starting to break down nicely.
Chest X-ray is still showing that his lungs are still very white though, but hopefully we will see some improvement with that in the next few days.
Fingers crossed that it also looks like they have managed to stop one of his chest drains from bleeding so much! This morning when I was with him, they lifted him up to take an X-ray of his chest, and one of those incontinence sheets was really saturated in blood! It really made me feel sick! So he has had more blood today.
They are going to be sending off samples of the weird snowflakes that he has been growing in his ECMO machine tubes, but they have to wait until the change the machine! That will be really interesting to see what they say anyway. So long as its not affecting little man in anyway.
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