Charlie Extubates

I'm on the news desk again. Charlie's nurse had a tough night on Friday night. The bradycardia events that were mentioned before reappeared at the start of her shift and the magic medicine / placebo / red herring (depending on how things pan out) was administered and things got a bit better. That was until 5am when things started going awry. Alarms went off because Charlie stopped breathing. Doctors were called and his breathing and heart rate were eventually restored. Charlie, we would learn, had "coded". Aly gets an email whenever certain things are ordered for the boys. After the doctor had put Charlie's new breathing tube in, she ordered an x-ray to check its position and Aly got an email. The bing on her phone woke her and she called the hospital. 20 minutes later we were at Charlie's bedside getting a report. 

He is fine. It is a serious business and we had a very difficult morning but once we got there he was already stable and all the plans for preventing it happening again were in place. As awful as these events are, they happen, and we have to accept that. There was a fair amount of discussion between the head of neonatology (the on call doctor that night) and myself about the above mentioned medicine but it is difficult and confusing so I will come back to it when some of the variables have been removed. At the moment, Charlie actually remains on a fairly standard premature baby list of supports. 

Henry, on the other hand, got to dress up and cuddle his mom for a while.

We are home now and we are worried but we believe Charlie isn't really any worse off than he was yesterday and tomorrow is another day. 

(D)