The Journey of James Weston

Thursday, September 8th, 2022 We had a pretty bad night last night. All throughout the night starting at around midnight James needed suctioning. His oxygen was dropping, yet it was saying that it was getting a really good reading. So we knew the issue was not the pulse sox on his foot. Every time Mom suctioned she wasn't getting very much up but yet she could feel it in his chest and in his back. So even though James was in a dead sleep mom had to sit him up and pat his back. This is called chest PT and we haven't really had to do this since the NICU. Typically after a lot of padding you can bring up secretions to his trach and then suction. There is a good chance that James has a trach infection. Mom increased his oxygen from .25 to .4. We didn't get very much sleep, well at least mom didn't. Every hour she was up either increasing oxygen or suctioning. You can throw in a couple diaper changes in there  We had rescheduled physical therapy to be earlier today than norm...