June 30, 2008

Today was a pretty good day. Camdyn slept more of the day, than he was awake (which we are happy for him to be getting his rest, but so sad we have very little awake time to play with him and talk to him). Camdyn ate a few bites of pancakes and eggs for breakfast (a little more than the day before... so that's an improvement!). He didn't have much appetite for lunch. Although when he woke up around 4pm - our little man was craving pizza! so, he had a slice of pizza for dinner. He has been keeping most all of his fluids down. Still we have not seen any tinkle or b.m. in his diaper. The rough spot of the day was this evening. We decided to give him a sponge bath, to help relax & refresh him - while the nurses placed new sheets on his bed. He was less than thrilled to be given a bath right then, he really just wanted to sleep. While we were finishing up with his sponge bath - the nurse looked at the area on his chest where the catheter is (from surgery) and she stated we needed to take the old bandages off an replace them.. to avoid any infection. Camdyn was miserable while the nurse was struggling to pull away the taping/bandages from his sensitive skin. We know it was hurting him - we could almost feel the pain as well. His little face was bright red, an tears were flowing. He was squeezing mommy's fingers as tightly as possible. Once the bandages were finally replaced with new ones - he started complaining about how badly his neck hurts. We look at it, and can see why! The incision the dr. made to insert the catheter into his neck - had a small bandage over it (used to be white, now was mostly dark reddish black) and on top of the small bandage is a larger bandage - almost like a waterproof tape. We looked closely at this area and began to become quickly concerned. It looks as if it may be infected? it is bright red around the incision and seems to be worsening. We showed the nurse who called a dr. in to examine. He stated we needed to give him an antibiotic tonight, in case it is becoming infected (he also mentioned it could just be serious chaffing on his neck from the constant movement he makes). He can not take the bandage off because he is not a surgeon. A surgeon has been requested to come to our room in the morning to further examine. Please pray this is nothing but sensitive skin needing a little TLC. We hope no infection has begun to set in.
Thank you again for all your love, time, efforts and prayers. We love you and thank you for showing such great love to us and our little Camdyn Michael Racer Slack :)