A bump in the road...

Last night Logan had to get oxygen. His oxygen saturation dropped to 81%. They took and X-ray and said it looked the same as last time. Well this morning they took another X-ray and they said it looks like he has some fluid in his lungs. He isn't moving any air through his upper right lung. So the doctors decided it would be best to get Logan out in the halls walking to get the stuff out of his lungs. Funny how it took this to get him out in the halls, this wouldn't have happened in the first place if he could of been walking the halls earlier.

Logan got to go out of his room for the first time today in a month! As soon as he realized we were going to make him walk he planted his butt on the floor. It was really funny. He sat in the middle of the hallway for at least ten minutes. But finally he decided he would get up. He walked for a bit and then we had to go back to the room so he could get his breathing treatment.

Then we met with the PT doctor, she had ideas on how to get air moving through his lung again. First was to bang on his chest, back, and side, and I mean bang! He wasn't very happy with that, so her next idea was a vest that pretty much shakes him around. We all prepared for the worst reaction possible. But when it came time he let me put the vest on. Then we all held our breaths when she went to turn it on, it turns out he likes it. Not just tolerates it, he likes it! I think he considered it a massage. So after every breathing treatment he has to wear the vest for thirty minutes.

The doctors added on two more breathing treatments for him too. One is called Mucumist it's very similar to taking Mucinex it'll just loosen up the mucus so he can cough it up. And the other one I don't remember the name of but it will clean his airway out. It's like Drano for the airway. So hopefully everything will clear out of his lung and it will open up again! IT WILL!!!

We talked to Dr. Paul today and he said we can probably still leave here by next week if his lungs clear. I was surprised by that news! I also just now found out that Billy and I are allowed out of the room and can go in all the common areas again. Logan is now allowed out in the hall the rest of the time we are here. He isn't allowed to join in any group activities though. That's ok, Logan hasn't been very social since we have been here anyway...lol. I guess they decided to change their policies a little bit. Because when you trap a child in the room they get sick!

I have a picture of the shaky vest, I will post the video later, it takes a while for it to upload.