Day 10 and Alexander is still in the hospital and there hasn't been a lot of change. However, as of yesterday a plan was finally made! Since his oxygen saturations have been all over the place when he is awake, the doctors have decided to keep Alexander on 1.5 liters of oxygen and allow his oxygen saturations to drop to 65, but nothing lower. Then we are to watch his saturations while he is active. With this plan, we've seen his oxygen levels stay around 65-72 when he is walking, with an few drops to 59 when he begins to walk back and forth in the room. When he drops this low, we have sit him down to relax and majority of the time, he doesn't want to sit and instead, wants to keep going! When Alexander does sit down, his oxygen levels bounce back up into the low 80's.
SO, as long as tonight goes well, we will lower his oxygen amounts to 1 liter tomorrow and see if he can tolerate it at that level. There has been discussion from the cardiology team that they feel comfortable sending Alexander home on 1 liter of oxygen as long as he can tolerate it. So, HOPEFULLY Alexander will be discharged sometime early next week (fingers and toes crossed). We are praying he can tolerate the 1 liter of oxygen and keep his saturations above 70 (my preference-doctor's preference is anything about 65) so that he can come home and continue to heal. <3
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