Please forgive me for copying and pasting these from facebook...this momma is beat!
Caleb was transfered to the PICU Saturday morning as his blood pressure was dropping really low. They gave him a lot of fluid and it did help. Unfortunately, his body is just holding on to all the fluid and he is looking quite puffy! For some reason his body is just not placing all this fluid where it needs to be. He has had an Echocardiogram this morning which showed some leakage at certain vessles/valves but we are not sure how much more there is vs. previous echos. Here's hoping they can put something together from all this! Thank you all so much...this momma is certainly getting VERY worried. :(
At this point, the Dr. is telling us that they think Caleb has some sort of hepatitis (sp?) infection and he is basically in liver failure and his heart is not doing well...he has been put on the ventilator, etc. to see if it will give his body the rest it needs to heal...he is VERY critical at this point...
Saturday PM update - Caleb is about the same as he has been. Most of the bloodwork and tests are either the same or slightly better...so I guess we can stay that he has remained stable at very critical. So it is a good thing that he has remained this way and has not gotten any worse as the day progressed. He is looking like a football player with how swollen he is becoming as he is still holding on to all the fluid.
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