Our sweet baby Ryder had his follow up head ultrasound today and...STABLE! The radiologist felt today that the area in question was a subtle finding at best...great news. He still will get a CT scan of the brain at some point to clarify but as of now very reassuring that the ultrasound was essentially unchanged!!! We started the morning with very little muddy brown pee (probably ATN for the medical among you) but SOOOOO thankful to report that his nurse just emptied 5 ml from his catheter that looked very yellow! Yes, we are excited about pee...kidneys are awesome. Ryder is also getting a renal ultrasound right now to make sure there is nothing that appears obstructed. The kidney team saw him today as along with the decrease in urine his creatinine is up (indication he is not clearing waste products as well) but they are going to wait probably until morning to see how he does on a lasix drip to try to get him to pee off a little more fluid before they will decide if he needs a dialysis cathter in the belly to drain off some fluid that way. It doesn't seem like he will actually need the dialysis at this point but the catheter then will be able to do that too if needed. Scary, but much less so that the giant chest cathters circulating his blood--so if it must be, it must be. If you are in a praying mood tonight, we are hoping for more pee and good blood pressures tonight!
We have kept Addy away from Ryder since his surgery on Tuesday as clearly the machinery was very intimidating, but she was relentless today about seeing her bwother Wyder (trouble with the Rs, sorry but still pretty cute) so Ross covered his chest tubes and some IVs with a blankie and she came back to kiss his feet again. She was very pleased! Have only been seeing a little less of her for 11 days now but it never ceases to amaze me what she comes up with --
"Mommy, I would give you a hug, but I can't get out of my car seat"
On plastic cell phone: "Doctors, hello, this is Addy. How is my bwother Wyder, is he ok?"
"I kissed him mommy, now he is all better"
"I read this book to Wyder and give him this snack [plastic hot dog bun from playroom] because he likes snacks and is hungry"
Thank you all for the messages, texts, calls, visits and the prayers!!
Chilling with baby bitty in the fun hospital swivel chair
Crusing in a Children's Mercy swaggin' wagon
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