New month new strength

3/1/14  08:44 pm

Carter had a very good day today.  He successfully had a PICC line placed that will allow them to take out the other IVs that are going into his belly.  This will reduce his risk of getting an infection.  He will begin getting the Indocin tonight to hopefully close up the PDA, Dr. Berstein said that there is a 40-50% chance this will work.  They can repeat the treatment one more time if it does not work the first time.  If it does not again they will need to do a surgical procedure to tie off this vessel.  His feedings will stop while they do this but he was tolerating his feeds well so we are optimistic that this PDA will close quickly and allow him to get back on track.  He remains on the ventilator but he really needed it because he was so much more stable today.  Tonight the nurse was switching out all of his IV tubing which is a small task since he has multiple types of fluids going and it has to be done under sterile technique.  Thank you to everyone who reads Carter's story.  I tell him daily about all of the love and support you all have been shining down on him.