Saturday, June 6, 2009

This is Aunt Jenae posting from Argentina..Clay did not have a very good day. DeeDee and Chance had a CPR class all day today. Uncle Justin stayed with Clay for the whole day and Aunt Lorna came to help out for several hours. Chance and DeeDee are thankful for their help. Uncle Justin was able to go to the shower room with Clay and help him get cleaned up. Uncle Justin was just as big of a trooper as Clay was because he was running around gathering towels, wash cloths, etc trying to keep up with the vomiting. It was back and forth to the laundry and making the pile of towels bigger each time! I am sure he thought he was going to have a fun day playing games with Clay and spending most of the day in the playroom :) I know he was glad when Aunt Lorna arrived to help him. The vomiting started around 3 a.m this morning and continued all day. If you remember, his trach had been downsized and it's much smaller than the last one. He was having trouble through the night feeling like his trach was plugged. The night nurse called the Respiratory Therapist from ICU to come suction it out. Thirty minutes after that he started vomiting and has not stopped. He doesn't feel like eating, but they are encouraging him to drink lots of fluids. Just for the record, the fluids come up, too, but he needs to keep trying so he doesn't get dehydrated. He was not able to sleep until just about 7:30 pm this evening after he was given a suppository of Phenegren (sp?). He is completely exhausted and worn out from all of this. He is not running a fever so they don't think it's an infection. DeeDee and Chance are staying with Clay tonight in the room and will watch and see how things progress. If it gets to the point where he needs fluids they will put an IV in him. We hope his little body can get some much needed rest and wait until the morning before any decisions are made. Thanks for all the encouraging posts and thoughts and prayers. Good night and may you all sleep well. Love, the Fites