13th January 2013

Today I went in and found Aydan wearing his cooling blanket again! I believe his temperature went up in the night and the nurse already had the window open, him sat in a nappy and the fan on, so decided it was for the best!

I believe there was some concern over his CO2 levels too, so his ventilation has been put up more. His CO2 levels were around 72 most of the day.

I have been asking the doctors about getting him on some probiotics because he has had terrible diarrhoea since he's been on the antibiotics. They have had a word with the pharmacists and they said that I can give him some, but they don't have any.

After a bit if research, I couldn't really did any liquid ones, and didn't want to try him on the yogurts as dairy doesn't seen to agree with him, so I have just bought him some normal acidophilus and they are going to add it to his milk :0)

I'm not sure it's going to work! I have a feeling it might go too clumpy, but its worth a try!

Aydan had all of his stitches removed today too! His war wounds already look loads better, and they have said that once they have healed a bit and the scabs have gone, that I can start to massage the scars to help them!

I asked on Aydan's Facebook group what people thought was the best thing to put on scars, and out of the suggestions I have decided I'm going to try coconut oil :0)

Aydan's doctors have decided that because he doesn't seem to be suffering any withdrawal symptoms, they are going to start dropping the sedatives a bit faster.

I've had a good chat with the doctors today and they have said that his chest X-rays are showing that his lungs are near enough perfect again, but there must be something going on that they don't know about because with lungs looking that good they would expect him to be off the ventilator.

They're not sure whether the brain damage is effecting his breathing, Whether the surgery has damaged his diaphragm, or whether he has a lot of scarring inside his lungs, or whether its still all down to the sedatives and he's still not strong enough.

We have also noticed that Aydan's eyes now seem to be pointing in separate directions and he's still not trying to focus on anything, again they think that might be the sedatives/brain damage.

They are going to order some more specialist tests. If nothing shows up then they are going to contact some actual specialists and see if they can suggest anything! I have a feeling its going to be a case of 'wait and see' personally!