Re: Emergency Surgery

[Guest guest]

I am glad it all went well and I will be praying the trach comes out

soon.

Hugs,

Crystal and Eva

-- In CHARGE , erin32573@... wrote:

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> Today at 12:15 JD had to have emergency surgery. Since last Friday

JD has been having a dry cough. On Saturday, and I went ahead

and did a trach change. We saw that there was caked blood inside his

trach. On Sunday, JD would start coughing, throwing up and we would

see that there was some blood in his trach. and I called the

doctor and was advised to keep watching him and that if he does it

again take him to the ER. The doctor said that he might have broken

a blood vessel. Around 9pm Sunday night, JD did it again with more

blood. Our nurse got there and her and I went to the ER. During our

ER visit, nothing really happened, which means that we were sent

home. We needed the ENT doctors to come in and do a scope. We got

home around 4am. JD slept most of the day. Around 10 pm, when

got home, JD started his coughing again. This time we changed his

trach out and there was more blood. We knew something was causing

all of this. We called our doctor and he told us to watch him over

night and take him to the ENT clinic to have them do a scope.

and our nurse went, while I came on into work. called me

around 10:30 and said that there were some granulmoa (tissue) and

this was blocking his airway. This also tells us that JD is

breathing great through his nose without problems. They told

that they needed to do surgery and he had to sign the paperwork

without me. I know it was hard for him but he made the best

decision. then leaned over to JD crying and said that HE (god)

would take care of him. I got up to the hospital when they had

already sent him in. The surgery took about an hour. They could not

put him to sleep through his trach up they were able to put the mask

over his face. They got the track out and there was a plug and cut

out the tissue that was causing the problems. JD went to the floor

around 3:30 and was in good spirits. I will be staying with him

tonight and he will get to come home tomorrow.

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> So the good news about this one, is that JD’s nose is still open

and soon he will not need the trach. Thank you for your hugs,

prayers and calls

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> 3300 Poteet Drive

> Mesquite, Texas 75150

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