October 2007

I just got word from Maddie that everything went well with his little procedure this morning. He came out of surgery about a half hour ago. They had taken out the ventilator in the OR. When they get back to the room...

Hello everyone. Today was another good day. It was a good day because it was really a resting day. They didn't really do anything dramatic or new to Keegan today. He started back on the formula through his nose tube. He...

I just got word from Maddie that they took out his heart pacing wires. These wires are used if Keegan's heart had ever developed an arrhythmia and they needed to try to correct it with a pace maker. These little wires were just...

Keegan did have a small procedure preformed this afternoon. They took him into the OR around lunch time and removed him PD catheter. They also added a drain that would remove some excess fluid that had gathered around his right lung. After...

Keegan is still on the SiPAP, but his lungs are very slowly starting to work better and better. He is still working on getting rid of the last amount of swelling. Some of it has settled around his lungs, so the doctors are...

Keegan had a busy night last night. Around 11pm they decided that everything looked right for extebating him (removing him from the ventilator). He did pretty well after they removed it. A chest x-ray showed that one of his lungs wasn't quite...

Good evening everyone!Today was a good day overall. We didn't make as much progress as we would have hoped but we didn't take any steps back either. The hope from yesterday was that we would be able to extebate Keegan by mid to...