In this great stage of NNICU care, I may have gone backwards. The medical team has talked to my family multiple times now to let them know that my prognosis was not great and that they don't see how I'll recover. But my family kept pushing back and they were left feeling distraught.
I had two arterial catheters placed. One in my right femoral artery and one in my right radial arterial catheter. They needed to do a couple more CTs before we could go on. This is my left lung, which is so much better than my right lung. I think I'll have the next picture on the next post of my thoracic cavity so you can best see what they saw. But I was stable and operated on to place two more chest tubes in me, so now I have three. I am sedated and unresponsive.
My family was talked to again about the importance of doing a surgical procedure called decortication. This is where they go into the thoracic cavity to remove an abnormal tissue growth that my body isn't responding to well. I will ultimately die if they do not do this procedure. But with it being done there is, of course, potential risk of bleeding out. But ultimately this procedure was approved by my family.
After surgery they did some physical tests on me. Right now, I can really only track with me left eye and say yes by giving them a thumbs up.
"When he told you you're not good enough
When he told you you're not right
When he told you you're not strong enough
To put up a good fight."
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