October 26th: Day 41

Benjamin had a rough night last night. They feel like he had a 'plug' in his breathing tube, likely caused from thicker secretions stopping up the bottom of the tube. This caused his heart rate and blood pressure to increase quite a bit and his sats to drop. They had to increase his rate on his vent again. We got a call at 5:30am to come over due to these issues. His carbon dioxide level was VERY high as well as a number of other monitoring parameters, including his white blood cell count. They are sending off cultures, but believe this is more of an acute event due to the plug and not an infection. They have adjusted a few of his meds, replaced his NG tube because it also had very thick secretions clogging it and adjusted a bit more of his vent settings. Right now, he is trying to settle back in to his groove and our hope for today is a lot of rest and no more events. Please pray for a non-eventful day for Ben, unless it gets better. Thanks.