Tuesday, December 9, 2008
12 hour delay
Well, as I said, Zai did really well right after surgery. The next day was a different story. He had what they call 12 hour delay post surgery. His body finally caught up to what had taken place and he had a little trouble. His right lung collapsed and his blood levels went way down. He was put on an oscillator to help blow up his lung and given his sixth blood transfusion. His lung is looking like it is getting better slowly but surely. And he is trying to breath on his own here and there. Hopefully he will be able to be removed from the oscillator in a few days. His blood levels went down again so they gave him another transfusion. (#7) He is extremely puffy, but he looks so adorable! He is still on a lot of pain medication but he woke up for the first time and looked at me for a few seconds. That was such a great feeling!
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wow, what can we say..Ash and I are tearing up just reading all of this, i can only imagine how you both must feel. We can relate maybe 1% to you guys because we had babies in the NICU, but that's about it, Ash just wants to come give you a hug...We would love to come visit you guys, we understand that they probably only want the parents in there, but we would love to bring you lunch, or just visit and help break up the monotany of the day. It sounds like Zai is a little tropper and is doing everything he can to hang in there. please let us know when we can come see you guys. We get back in town on Sunday.
Take care
Audy and Ash
you guys are in our prayers
Ash, hang in there sweetie! We are praying for ya!!
Chris and Ashley,
Sorry we didn't make it to the hospital but the day we were coming was the day everything got a little scary with little Zai and we decided we would stay away and let he docs do their job. We just want to let you know we love you and are praying for the best.
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