Thursday, February 12, 2009

Kuyler
Well, we took Kuyler to see Dr. Ledbetter, the children’s pulmonologist at TC Thompson's Children’s Hospital on Monday and the visit went well. The doctor said that Kuyler does have some kind of an obstructed airway and that we need to have a bronchoscopy and a swallowing test done.

The swallowing test is scheduled for next week, February 18th at 1:00 and it is kind of an x-ray where they take pictures of him drinking to see if he is aspirating into his lungs when he is nursing. This would not be a good thing to be happening, so we have to get this checked out.

The bronchoscopy is more invasive since Kuyler has to be sedated and spend the night in the hospital. The procedure will take a little scope with a tiny camera into his nose, lungs, throat, and anywhere else to get a better view of what is going on with his breathing. In addition, the doctor is going to take cultures to see if there is any kink of infection going on. The date for this procedure it February 26th at 6:15am. Little Kuyler cannot have anything to eat after 2:15am and that is going to be hard since he eats round the clock it seems. I will really have to get him full before he lays down for bed that night or I am going to have a ravenous little man on my hands!

Well, I will go for now. Please keep us in your prayers that all goes well and Kuyler will just have to grow out of this.
His,
Cendy

1 comments:

Liana said...

If you need anything, PLEASE holler at me! I'll be glad you come sit with you if you need me. I'm just a few minutes away! :-) We will pray all goes well for the little guy.