14/11/07

It's all been a bit pants over the last couple of days. Elis was put back in an incubator in Intensive Care yesterday morning as his oxygen requirement was increasing again. He's back in steroids to help his lungs, his diuretics have been increased and a chest Xray taken yesterday afternoon revealed that he has another chest infection so is now on two types of IV antibiotic as well.

He's got bigger prongs up his nose so that he can get more oxygen that way and was in 65% ambient oxygen in the incubator as well. By the time I left this evening though, the incubator oxygen had been weened back to to 21% so he could then be put back into his cot. It seems very strange to have a cot in Intensive Care but there are no spaces in High Care at the moment for him to be in there. Hopefully the antibiotics will nip the infection in the bud and the other meds will bring his oxygen back to a manageable level. Chances are that he will now need to stay on the steroids for the forseeable future to help Elis' lungs function better so all the targets that we were working towards a couple of days ago are now out of the window. At the moment we'll just focus on getting through this infection and get him on an even keel again.