Brandon is very sick

It is great to have Katelyn home. She is doing well and it seems that she enjoys being home. She is still attached to the oxygen through a 57 foot long tube. We also hook her up to a monitor for her heart rate and breathing. This makes walking around the house while holding her a little tricky. The monitor has a rechargeable batter and we have some smaller oxygen tanks so we don’t have to stay home all of the time. She had her first doctor’s appointment on Monday and she will have to return often to make sure that everything continues to go well.

I mentioned previously that Brandon was sick. However I didn’t really explain it well. I don’t give a lot of the numbers and details because they are rather confusing and it would take a lot of time to describe them well. However, he is really sick and he looks really bad. He is very swollen over his entire body. He is bigger than Katelyn but that isn’t a good thing. He is usually very heavily sedated. He is back on the ventilator so he can’t make any noise even when he tries to cry. He has a bad infection; they believe it is pneumonia. They also found a blood clot in his heart. At first the nurses were very concerned but the surgeons have told us that, wile it could be potentially dangerous, it is rather common. They are treating it to keep it from growing and they hope it will come out when they remove the tube that it is attached to. His support and many of the various things the tests have been very bad over the last week.

The good news is that he is making progress in the last couple of days. Some of the numbers have started to come down. He had a bowl movement so his operation seems to have been successful. His ventilator settings have dropped a little. He still is very sick but we have hope that he is on his way to recovery. It is still very hard for me to see him in this condition. It is especially hard because, in such stark contrast, his sister is doing so well. He looks an awful lot like Katelyn.