Jayden's Journey Day Three

Jayden had a little bit of a difficult time today as he is now completely off the ventilator. I would say today was the most difficult day so far of then entire process. The hardest thing for a baby to do while coming out of surgery is re-learning how to breathe and properly use their lungs. His oxygen saturations are doing well but they also have a little bit of oxygen shooting down his nose. We thought that he was going to be able to feed today, but since he is under a lot of stress and pain they decided to keep him sedated and just have fluids pumping into his body. As a result of having the ventilator, Jayden has a lot of junk building up in his lungs and it was our hope that he could cough on his own in order to break it up, but he had to have a tube stuck down his nose that sucked the junk out multiple times. Another issue that Jayden faced today was higher blood pressure that could be do to the pain he is encountering. They have him on a drug to keep it low as they are concerned that if the pressures get too high the stitches in his heart could burst. (We pray this never happens)

I would say that this has been the most difficult day of my life. Rachel and my family are up in town, and we decided to go out to eat and just kind of get of the Hospital for a little bit, but as we were leaving you could just tell that he was going through a lot and had the look on his face of "What's going on?" but the pain and trials will only last for a moment and rejoicing comes in the morning! Nurses and Dr's are really pleased with Jayden's progress, but it is still going to take time. Tomorrow's goal is to have him eating and hopefully have him completely off his blood pressure medicine and off his oxygen! Continue to pray as there are still many more hurdles that he has to overcome.