the latest on the baby: and i can't improve on my goddaughter's words aobut her son - misspellings and all.. don't stop those prayers!!! i think it's make or break time...
Aidan's heart is doing well. Unfortunately, Aidan's lungs are not. He has developed an infection, a kind of pnemonia, in his lungs. In addition to the excess fluid, Aidan is also having to work at breathing against the infection. Because he is still intibated they have increased his ventilator settings so that he has little work to do. He is also getting albuterol to open his lungs up a bit more. Today they also discovered that he has a urinery tract infection and that today's chest x-ray is looking worse than yesterday's. Aidan has been on antibiotics for three days and the doctors are very concerned. It is so hard to come all this way and run into this. If Aidan does not start to respond to the antibiotics he will slowly start to deteriorate over the next couple weeks. Please continue to keep him in your prayers. He is still so far away from coming home and is again in very critical condition. The docto rs will know in the next few days whether Aidan is going to get better. He will be going in for another surgery to place a central line to run medications either Tuesday or Wednesday. Thank you for all your prayers that have carried him this far and please, keep praying for him. I am hopeful he will be home soon.
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