Good night, wet lungs

Caelen had another good night, however he has been waking a lot this morning and even sat up and tried to pull out his chest tubes. This is obviously very bad. However, from a neuro standpoint, this is positive. The attending didn't seem to share my excitement. Clearly he is under sedated so the plan today is to go up on sedation so he can rest and stop fighting.

Also, the diuretics have switched from scheduled doses to a constant drip. The team is also going to decrease his maintenance fluids and increase the diuretics to get more fluid off his lungs. His X-ray wasn't as improved as we'd hoped, so the plan this weekend is to just work on his lungs and diurese him as safely as we can without dehydrating him intervascularly.

If you are looking for specifics to pray for, please pray for his lungs to dry out, open back up and heal. I'm stealing this from one of my good heart friends Lori, "we need the tiniest angels with the biggest wings to get into his lungs and dry them out."

Lastly, we are going onto contact isolation (glove, gown, mask) because a respiratory sample was sent to the lab. Caelen's bacterial cultures are clean, except for a urinary tract infection, and he's getting antibiotics for that. But the viral culture wasn't done until today and won't be back for 24-48 hours, so this is why we have to be on contact isolation until the results are in. We are hoping that it comes back clean. But in the meantime, visitors are severely limited.

Thanks for your continued support and prayers for Caelen.