Rough Day...

Thank you to everyone who has been following along...I decided it was easier and faster for everyone (especially me since I'm beat), if I just posted a note about this. Today was a really rough day...probably one of the worst we've had so far. They pushed Tucker's breathing tube in too far to collapse his lung on purpose. He tolerated it for a while, and his left lung did start to collapse some, but he stopped tolerating it and his blood gases were HORRIBLE. So, they pulled the tube back to where it had been and within an hour his left lung was worse than it was before...I saw the x-ray and his left lung was so over inflated it took up most of his chest...which was really scary. He looked awful also...and his oxygen saturation was horrible and he was on 100% oxygen which is not good. And all day his blood pressure had been really low and his heart rate was really high, which he's never had a problem with before. They were giving him drugs to help with his blood pressure but nothing seemed to be working. It was the first time that I've been really scared that we were going to lose him...and I think it was the first time the doctors and his nurses felt that way also. I honestly didn't know if he was going to make it through the night. They adjusted some of the settings on his ventilator and he started coming back around...his color got better, his blood pressure started to go up and stay up and his heart rate started coming down, his oxygen saturation went way up and they were able to start weaning him down on his oxygen concentration. He's doing much much better, but he's still not out of the woods...his x-ray at 8 looked about the same, if not maybe a little bit better. But when we left at like 9 or so he was down to 21% oxygen concentration which is great...21% is what we breathe...it's room air so they were very happy about that. Now the biggest thing is if his lung doesn't start to shrink in size or if it gets bigger...it could tear and leak air into his chest (it would also cause his lung to collapse), and they would have to put a tube in his chest to get the air out. I'm praying it doesn't come to that because I really don't think he'll be able to make it with one good lung...he was having a hard time with it today...his oxygen saturation never went over 80 which isn't good. Some day I'll explain all of these terms I promise for anyone who doesn't know. Today is not that day though because like I said before I'm absolutely exhausted. That's all I know right now, if anything changes I'll post another update. Thank you for all of your prayers and your support. I don't know how we would make it through this without all of you. You have been wonderful and I couldn't ask for better friends and family. Thank you again everyone, we love you!!