SURGERY UPDATE II

Max had somewhat of a rough time after surgery...and it was quite unnerving. He was very uncomfortable and agitated, but fortunately he found comfort with the help of some meds. He loves his Adavan.

However, even after sedation, his breathing continued to be VERY fast (160 breaths per minute...the highest it has ever been). He has a new set of docs in the PICU so they were questioning me on everything...especially "does he really breathe this fast???" They did a chest xray and sure enough his lungs appeared "wet" so they gave him some extra meds to rid his body of the extra fluid. It appears to have worked so far, since his respiratory rate has decreased in recent hours. He was super hot upon arrival too and quite red...and sure enough he had a pretty good fever...but that too has gone down a little throughout the evening.

We'll see how the night goes...hopefully in the morning we will be discharged from the ICU and return to the floor.