Jacob was given bowel movement medication and spent most of Thursday and Friday on the toilet, it was every hour or so. So they cut back on that after a day of diarrhea. His nausea is worse and so they introduced two new meds for the nausea.
His pain stays at a 6 down to a 4, and then he has extreme itching so they give him meds for the itching. Thursday he also had a blood transfusion.
He is still on the trach and will continue to be on it for a few more days. There will be a swallow study tomorrow (Monday). He is having trach, coughing, mucus problems today and yesterday. A lot of tightness and wheezing if he doesn't have that moisture in his lungs. They have him in a nebulizer treatment schedule every few hrs
and he gets anxiety attacks from the trach so they give him ativan and stuff for being too anxious and thinking he can't breathe.
His skin graft is healing and his now rinsing and spitting with the oral cleaning solution
he was on antibiotics then they took him off after he stabilized and he went a day with no issues but now the fever is back so he is back on antibiotics at this time. They are bolusing his feeds now and giving him very little because the nausea happens
he has tried to rip the feeding tube out of his nose twice in his sleep
that's about it. He's resting now.
All cultures so far have been negative. They are running UTI labs and another blood culture just in case with the fever situation. They will be doing a bunch of tests on him tomorrow to determine if he will be able to go home at the end of next week or not
it could be longer, but they are hoping to cut down on the pain meds that make him itch so much and swap out the trach for one that closes so he can not feel so dried out. He is currently scratching his face in his sleep
