Last week Friday we were able to take Sol home from the hospital. We had a week long stay, which is way less than I expected for us to have. On Monday, after we got out of the picu, pediatric intensive care unit, Sols main doctor happened to be on the floor we were at so she popped in to see us. She looked at him for about 2 seconds and told me this isn't aspiration this is a virus. She told RTs what they need to do to help him have better nights, the problem they were having was giving him oxygen and not enough support from the vent. His lungs were collapsed so giving him all the oxygen in the world wasnt going to help open up his lungs, he needed more pressure to pop the lungs open. She gave us a new plan of action and they did that over night the first night in the step down unit. He did much better, he still had some plugging issues around 2 am but they were able to get it out and it wasn't as dramatic as his first few plug issues.
The doctor was right, too, his virus panel came back and he had the rhino virus... the common cold. For a baby that isnt common it can become so deadly!
But, with the new plan in action, Sol was able to start recovering pretty quickly and after one good night of no plugs, they were ready to send us home. The home plan has been to keep him on his extra sick vent settings until Monday this week and start to go back to his norm after that. We are pretty much there now. He is off his sick vent settings and tolerating being off the vent during the day again. Although I think he is starting the teething process again now though, or something, because he isn't as chipper as he was a couple days ago.
As much as I hated going to the hospital because of being scared he was going to die, he made some huge accomplishments while we were there. We were able to hear him giggle! And see him Laugh, most adorable thing in the world. He was babbling A lot while being on the vent and our speech therapist agreed that he is prime and ready to start talking and he should be worked with a lot because he could really start booming now. He also learned how to give kisses when you ask him. He started doing a lot of things with his mouth. These are amazing things to us because we always wonder what will happen to his learning ability when he cant move like a normal baby. He is showing to find his own ways of learning and keeping up with all the other babies his age the best he can. He is really an amazing little guy. He beat this sickness, really showing us how strong he is. I don't think this will make it any easier for the next time he gets sick, which I'm hoping doesn't happen for a very long time, but hopefully if we stick to the plan of action we did this time, he will recover just as nicely.
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