Ethan in the PICU

Sunday night I took Ethan into Primary Childrens ER because his breathing sounded irregular. He was rushed into Trauma as soon as we entered the ER, and then quickly taken to the PICU. The first 8 hours the doctors worked very hard to keep Ethan alive,we were prepared by doctors for the worst. As you all know Ethan is a tough guy and kept with us!!! He even tried to fight the doctors.

Ethan's lungs & heart were working very hard, too hard a matter of fact. What doctors think what happened is related to the Acute Hemorragic Edema he was diagnosed with (@ Primarys) in March. The bleeding that we usually see show it's self on the outside of his body in the form of "spots" was happening internally as well. For how long we do not know, but this internal bleeding was going into his lungs. Causing fluid (blood) in his lungs as well as a rapid decrease in red blood cells. The fluid in his lungs made it very hard for him to breath and the lack of blood made his heart go into overtime to produce more red blood cells.

Currently Ethan is still in the PICU and will be for some time. He is on complete life support. Over the past 32 hours we have had big scares but are currently taking some baby steps towards improvement, of course not without a few bumps along the way. We are anticipating a couple weeks in the PICU and then some more time in the hospital. Our main focus is getting his stable & healing what has happened. Then of course what happened, how it happened, why it happened, and then how to prevent & care for it.

I will do my best to keep the blog updated.

PLEASE KEEP ETHAN & OUR FAMILY IN YOUR PRAYERS AND SEND POSITIVE ENERGY.