Postby bobcat1 » Tue Jun 08, 2021 10:10 pm
Hudson won't quit and I will not quit him! Show your power Lord!
From My son Matthew:
Night 2, last update for today. First and foremost thank you everyone for the love and support through this all, my son deserves it so so much! Today was a bit of a rough day for Hudson. During surgery, he was on bypass, and his heart lost blood, and right now, his right ventricle(his only ventricle) is inflamed, and tough and not retaining blood well. So therefore his kidneys are not working properly, so all the medicine, his body is retaining and putting him through the ringer. To fix this, they have put him on Milrinone to help the heart relax, while keeping his heart on a pacemaker for the atria of his heart, which sends a signal to the top to work and the bottom or the ventricle of his heart is pumping correctly but it takes the pacemaker to make this happen perfectly. This is a normal thing for his condition and this surgery, so then his heart will pump correctly to the kidneys, which will help his body process the fluid and medicines correctly and bring baby boy back to recovery. Right now they also have him on insulin cause his blood sugar is wayyy high right now, and they have to test him every hour. Since the pacemaker and the medicine he has been so much more peaceful and calm, because earlier he was screaming out for us and even though we are right there a foot away it’s like he can’t see us, and was screaming in fear and occasionally in pain. I pray tonight he can rest all night with minimal pain outbursts and tomorrow is an amazing day recovering for him!! My heart hurts so bad for my son, and i would lay down and give him my heart in a New York minute just to get him back to normal, the movie John Q hits home for me, whatever it takes for my son, he will get.
Please know his surgeon came by and reassured us that this happens with HLHS babies after the Fontan, he said he hates the fontan and so do the patients but he said this is normal.
