Today was a day that Aydan would make Alder heys unofficial record books.
Today was a day where they would take Aydan to have a CT scan.
Now you might not understand the importance of this, but apparently they have a brand new CT machine downstairs, now normally when they do CT scans they use the upstairs ones, and that means they don't have far to travel, but Aydan is on ECMO, and they have never transferred a patient that far on ECMO, in Alder hey.
We felt like Royalty, they had to shut down most of the downstairs of the hospital, security guards blocked every entrance, and it took sooo many of the m to move him! There had to be so many pushing the bed, so many pushing the ECMO circuit, his emergency drugs, then they had a spare ECMO circuit, plus surgeons in case anything bad happened!!
It was planned out very very carefully, and we had to move very very slowly!
But we made it there an back!
I have added a pic below to show the madness Aydan created!
The good news was that Aydan's brain scan looked good. There were no obvious signs of brain damage, a few hazy patches, but nothing significant.
The chest one was the most worrying as I wasn't sure whether they would tell me his lungs hadn't returned back to where they should be, and that it was all a waste of time.
His lungs had thankfully returned to where they should be, but his left lung was showing that there was a significant amount of blood clots around it, and they said he will probably need an operation to remove them :0(
On another note he had a 3rd lot of surfactant.
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