A cold.
They expect we'll be here a good 5 days for respiratory support.
His echo came back "the same" as his last echo two months ago. There are four SCH cardiologists that work out of their Tacoma and Olympia clinics and also serve Mary Bridge, so today we saw Dr. Powers who reassured me that his cardiac function is good.
The concern for Job's heart when he has a cold is that the passive blood flow to his lungs has a harder time getting through because of the cold crud and congestion. Thus his lungs struggle to be properly oxygenated and his sats drop.
Job's teething too, so we're on a regimine of alternating Tylenol then Motrin every three hours because he's so miserable. He's so much stronger and more opinionated than in previous hospitalizations, so he's trying really hard to yank stuff off him. I'm trying to just hold and comfort him so we don't have to use restraints.
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