After a restful night Ryder was found to have a small brain bleed on his morning head ultrasound...the significance of this we don't know yet...
With this consequence his heparin needed to be turned off so he had to get off the ECMO as quick as possible (you have to be on heparin with this). Ryder did really well on lower flows of the ECMO so his surgeon came in and removed the ECMO tubes. We had a couple really bad hours shortly thereafter with dropping O2 sats and blood pressures. Miraculously (in my opinion) with a little more volume he perked up. Probably more related to all of your prayers than anything!!
We are still holding our breaths tonight...hoping for stable vital signs, better urine output and an encouraging CT scan which can't be done until he is stable for a road trip out of the ICU. At this moment though, aside from being a bit puffy Ryder couldn't look more handsome...my little love is a fighter and I have faith he will keep getting stronger!!
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