We were so excited to be off the ventilator. We had a lot of smiles for everyone that came in the room. We did pretty good over night. I was able to feed Garet a couple time last night. They just had him on some pedialite to see how his tummy would do. He was doing about the same as when we were at home. He would eat about an ounce and then fall asleep. That is just showing that his little heart muscle is still having to work so hard to do anything extra.
So this morning around 4 they came in to do there normal daily chest ex ray and they found that his left lung was partially collapsed. This is partially from the way he was laying and partially from the size of his heart pushing on this lungs. So when they found this out they made the decision to put him a CAP. This is what he has on in the picture below. It is just a piece that goes over his nose and blows constant air into his nose to try to help keep air in his lungs and keep it from collapsing completely. Garet does not like it at all. He was loving having the tube out of his throat and now he has this tube right in front of his face instead. But we will do whatever we need to to keep him breathing on his own. The plan for today is to try to get him back off the CAP and just with the little nose thing. They are not changing any of his heart medicine today. They are going to try to take care of this lung issue before they try to aggravate him any more.
Matt went to Vystar yesterday to set up the donation account. We have had family and friends ask us how they can donate to help out with hospital bills. So we Finlay got this done. We have two different way you can donate. You can call 1-904-777-6000 or go into a vystar. All you have to tell them is that you want to deposit to the Garet Howard donation account. We also have the donation button on the right side of this page that you can click on and do a donation that way. Please do not feel you have to do any of this. We are just setting it up for the people that are asking. The thought and prayers are all we really need. When we are all finished with this fun new part of our lives, if there is any additional money still left in either of these accounts we will be giving it as a donation to some sort of heart foundation. We want to make sure that anyone else that has to go threw this can get the wonderful help that we have been receiving.
So this morning around 4 they came in to do there normal daily chest ex ray and they found that his left lung was partially collapsed. This is partially from the way he was laying and partially from the size of his heart pushing on this lungs. So when they found this out they made the decision to put him a CAP. This is what he has on in the picture below. It is just a piece that goes over his nose and blows constant air into his nose to try to help keep air in his lungs and keep it from collapsing completely. Garet does not like it at all. He was loving having the tube out of his throat and now he has this tube right in front of his face instead. But we will do whatever we need to to keep him breathing on his own. The plan for today is to try to get him back off the CAP and just with the little nose thing. They are not changing any of his heart medicine today. They are going to try to take care of this lung issue before they try to aggravate him any more.
Matt went to Vystar yesterday to set up the donation account. We have had family and friends ask us how they can donate to help out with hospital bills. So we Finlay got this done. We have two different way you can donate. You can call 1-904-777-6000 or go into a vystar. All you have to tell them is that you want to deposit to the Garet Howard donation account. We also have the donation button on the right side of this page that you can click on and do a donation that way. Please do not feel you have to do any of this. We are just setting it up for the people that are asking. The thought and prayers are all we really need. When we are all finished with this fun new part of our lives, if there is any additional money still left in either of these accounts we will be giving it as a donation to some sort of heart foundation. We want to make sure that anyone else that has to go threw this can get the wonderful help that we have been receiving.
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