I wanted to thank everyone for the extra prayers today. I got excellent results from my CT earlier this morning. The blood clot is gone, or what they thought was a blood clot is gone. There is no need to worry that it broke off either. The dissection still is there, but my only treatment is to take one 325mg Aspirin daily for a few months. I have follow up w/ a Stroke doctor in the next couple weeks, because they are more qualified in the vessel department. It was a huge relief knowing that I didn't have to be admitted to the hospital again and started on stronger meds to dissolve the clot. Plus now I can continue pumping milk for RJ 48 hrs after my image today since I was also given IV contrast. That contrast gave the most awful feelings all at once: total body hot flash, metallic taste in mouth, and feel like I was peeing on myself. I'm just so thankful for the awesome results. Now I can focus on RJ and helping him get better.
We got to see RJ intermittently today due to my CT and all. He was pretty tuckered out this morning, but looked peaceful. His sats were good as well. This afternoon we could tell he was feeling a lil better b/c he fluttered his eyes open and gave us some smiles. :) He had some good pee and poopy diapers which was encouraging. So far none of his cultures have grown anything, so that's a blessing. They ended up having to take another chest x-ray later this afternoon after we left because he dropped his sats and they weren't coming up. The chest x-ray showed both the feeding tube and ET tube (for intubation) were in the correct place. They gave him an albuterol treatment and it seemed to open his lil airways.
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