2 steps forward 1 step back

Last night was a little rough for Finley...we were battling him being comfortable (kinda has a lot of tubes/wires sticking out of his body currently), making sure he wasn't in a lot of pain and of course him being hungry since he hasn't eaten since Tuesday night at 9pm.  Our goal coming into today was getting him back on moma's milk.  This AM upon arriving here we quickly saw his skin tone, O2 levels and overall comfortable level was not good.  We pressed on by starting off with removing a number of tubes/IV's from him in order to easily get ready for feeding then things kinda went south.  You could begin to hear a gurgling sound when he breathed, then his skin tone started going from a pinkish hue to blueish purple then after running a blood gas test he started becoming acidic.  They ordered up the mobile xray machine to check out his lungs and quickly saw his right lung (upper lobe) had collapsed due to liquid in there.

This sounds awful I know, but its not a terrible extremely bad thing...just means things are changing for Finley but the team here can adapt and work on fixing these issues.  They've swapped out his O2 tubes at his nose with a CPAP device in order to better force O2 down into his lungs as well as offer more pressure to expand that lung back open.  As for the fluid in there, they are doing some therapy on his chest which looks/sounds worse than it is to get him to loosen up that gunk and get him to cough it out as well as some deep suction.

As of right now, he has responded positively to the CPAP device as his O2 levels are much better however we're still working on that fluid in the lung but that will take a little longer so we just need to hold tight.

So, in closing we have to appreciate he just had major surgery only a day and half ago....this is going to take some time to heal.  Yes, it's difficult to see him not in the best place right now.  For a parent, it's the perfect definition of being "helpless".

It would be naive of us to celebrate after having the surgery b/c it was a success....we have some way to go and we need to get back to where we were yesterday afternoon now before we can move forward again.  Cruel I know but we will get there.

lil man swaddled w/ new fancy cpap breathing device