After last post yesterday afternoon
Teddy's fine. Remember those two words. We'll be coming back to them later. His vitals are good. He's doing quite well. Amy and I are both fine. As of 9:30 p.m., everyone is good. For the rest of this post, I'm going to do this as a dialog between myself and a hypothetical person who doesn't know everything that went down after Teddy made it to the ICU.
OK...I heard a rumor that something happened last night. What's going on?
Well, last night after he made it back to the ICU, he had a moment where he went code blue.
WHAT?!
Right. Remember those two words I started with? Let's go back and reread them. Come back when you're done, and we'll go from there.
Tell me what happened.
His heart rate dropped down to between 40 and 60 beats per minute for about 60 seconds. Slow for an adult, but dangerously slow for a baby just under 6 pounds. So his heart was slow enough that they started chest compressions. He reacted to that and to the clotting drugs they gave him. They got ahead of his bleeding, and managed to get him stabilized. He woke up and was alert. They're quite sure that it didn't cause any permanent damage. They're not sure what caused it, but the doctor said that she suspected the respirator he was on. They don't know that yet, but they swapped it out anyway. After a rocky first hour up there, he quickly resolved all of that and his vitals have been strong ever since.
OK. So...why didn't you tell everyone?
That's what I'm doing now.
How's he doing?
Remember how I started? He's doing well. He's sedated to keep his pain managed and to keep him from pulling on cords, cables and IV's. Amy and I eventually went home so that she could sleep and heal. We've got the number for his personal nurse, and we call and see how he's doing. The difference right now between us being there and us being home is that here, we might be able to sleep, which is something Amy needs to heal. Literally, if anything happens, they'll fix him, and then they'll call us. If we were there, and anything happened, they'd fix him, ignore us, and then tell us after the fact what had happened. Tomorrow, we're going to go back in, and check out how he's doing. We'll update you all with what's going on, but for now, remember, Teddy's fine.
OK...I heard a rumor that something happened last night. What's going on?
Well, last night after he made it back to the ICU, he had a moment where he went code blue.
WHAT?!
Right. Remember those two words I started with? Let's go back and reread them. Come back when you're done, and we'll go from there.
Tell me what happened.
His heart rate dropped down to between 40 and 60 beats per minute for about 60 seconds. Slow for an adult, but dangerously slow for a baby just under 6 pounds. So his heart was slow enough that they started chest compressions. He reacted to that and to the clotting drugs they gave him. They got ahead of his bleeding, and managed to get him stabilized. He woke up and was alert. They're quite sure that it didn't cause any permanent damage. They're not sure what caused it, but the doctor said that she suspected the respirator he was on. They don't know that yet, but they swapped it out anyway. After a rocky first hour up there, he quickly resolved all of that and his vitals have been strong ever since.
OK. So...why didn't you tell everyone?
That's what I'm doing now.
How's he doing?
Remember how I started? He's doing well. He's sedated to keep his pain managed and to keep him from pulling on cords, cables and IV's. Amy and I eventually went home so that she could sleep and heal. We've got the number for his personal nurse, and we call and see how he's doing. The difference right now between us being there and us being home is that here, we might be able to sleep, which is something Amy needs to heal. Literally, if anything happens, they'll fix him, and then they'll call us. If we were there, and anything happened, they'd fix him, ignore us, and then tell us after the fact what had happened. Tomorrow, we're going to go back in, and check out how he's doing. We'll update you all with what's going on, but for now, remember, Teddy's fine.
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