earthycouple
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hum. Ok, so Sunday e01n's CXR was worse than Saturday and he's in more pain. Today the Pulmonologist did a thoracentisis (stabbed him in the lung with a needle to draw off fluid) because of the worsening CXR. What he told me was this: "When [e01n] came in, he was dying. Today he's not dying, but he's not getting any better. I need to know why he's not getting better." After another CT and analysis of the fluid he pulled off they will decide to do one of three things: another thoracentisis would be the least of the three evils. This would be because they need to just pull more excess fluid off. Next option would be a chest tube to create a solid draining system to relieve a lot of fluid and lastly would be a thorachotamy which is a procedure to go in and sluck out many pockets of various fluid. This decision will be based on, as I said the fluid in his lungs and if it's complex. Complex means it has LDH, glucose and other various things in it and how bad tonights CT looks. I'll know more tomorrow. He's still on oxygen (5 liters/high flow NC) and he desaturates pretty quickly. The pain he's in is almost unbearable for me to watch (keep in mind Iam a nurse who takes care of dying children so that's saying a lot) What's the end all be all of this? He's not even close to out of the woods yet and I wonder if they will move him to a long term acute care center once they feel he's stable. Again, I can't say thank you enough for your support and good thoughts!
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