Job's morning echocardiogram again showed no clot growth or movement. I think everyone is slowly starting to breathe a bit easier. Each day that passes lessens the likelihood of growth or movement, although there will certainly be risk until the clot is (hopefully) reabsorbed.
It seems definite that Job will be on an anti-coagulant for the rest of his life. He's on a heparin drip through his PICC now and will be switching over to lovenox (which is actually a form of heparin) injections this afternoon. And in a few weeks when we, Lord willing, go home, he'll switch to an oral dosing (like warfarin). Baby aspirin just won't be enough for him as his clot factor is too high.
He's down to 7lpm on his hi-flow and seems to be doing well. If his sats drop or his work of breathing increases then he'll go up to 8lpm of pressure again or even back to BiPap.
Isaac is very happy to entertain his little brother and Job is very happy to be entertained by his big brother. Job is responding more and more to us, slowly resembling the little baby that we used to know.
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