31 Oct Evening Update
Keegan did fine through the surgery and CT. The surgeons were able to get the port in and preserve his jugular veins for future cardiac purposes. The port is working fine and is now being used to give him IV fluids. We'll...
October 2008
30 Oct Update
It's now almost 1pm, and Keegan's been in surgery for less than 30 minutes. He was not taken down at 7:30 as planned, and his IV from yesterday blew sometime between 5:30 and 6:30am while he was sleeping. They stopped pedialyte down his...
30 Oct Central Line tomorrow
Just a quick evening update. Things were tense again today, as it took until after 2pm to get Keegan to radiology for the MRV and get an IV started. However, once he was sedated, the anesthesiologist was able to quickly get an IV...
29 Oct Update
Dr. Brown came by late last night and recommended a good plan of action. The first and most important thing is to get a reliable access point on Keegan for fluids, nutrition, and IV drugs. We've tried both hands and feet in the...
29 Oct Update…NOT from home
Submitted by Gray on Tue, 10/28/2008 - 8:08pm.Last night, Keegan spiked a fever of over 101 right after I posted, right as Gray was loading the car up with most of our stuff in preparation to go home today. When a transplant spikes a...
27 Oct Home tomorrow?
After this weekend's failed trial of increasing calories, Dr. Brown said we'll need to make the increase at a much slower pace, like over weeks instead of days. That makes it unreasonable to keep Keegan in the hospital to watch him. We started...
26 Oct Update
Well, Saturday went well until around 6pm. Keegan seemed to be doing ok on 50ml/hour of the 20kcal for most of the day. Around 3pm, we increased his calories to 24kcal, and after about 3 hours, he started having diarrhea again. So...
24 Oct Update
Keegan is still doing ok with his feeds. Last night right after Gray left to go home, Keegan started to choke and cough, which pushed his ng tube out a bit. He was pretty upset and ended up pulling it all the way...
24 Oct Update
The plan changed yesterday after we posted. Keegan's weight was down to 15.3 pounds, and he had been 24 hours without a bowel movement by 4pm yesterday. So with the picc line out of place, Dr. Brown advised to go ahead with starting...
22 Oct Update
Keegan did ok yesterday. He was in a decent mood much of the day despite a few problems. His picc line has migrated out of the vein it should be in. It's not a huge problem, but it means we can't increase...
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