Our boy almost died........

Just as I was posting this yesterday I was paged back to the PICU. Andy and I were met at the door by a social worker, who told us that Rhett had coded just afer we left. She prepared us for what we were going to see, and took us back. They had quit doing chest compressions on him, and had him intubated, they had gotten his heartrate back, and he seemed stable. The doctor came up to me and told me that he was pretty sure that Rhett had recieved 13x the amount of pain medication than he should have. Because of this he stopped breathing and his heartrate went to 30. His nurse was right there when it happened, and he was down for less than a minute, however they did have to do chest compressions for 2 minutes to get his heartrate stable.

His left lung collapsed, it has re-inflated, but he is still wet in his lungs. We had just finished feeding him a bottle of pediasure right before he crashed and he threw up and aspirated it into his lungs, which caused a little of an aspiration pnmounia. We are still on the vent today and he is irritated with that. They don't want to sedate him, because they want to watch him to see how he responds. Obviously they are worried about brain damage. All I want is my little boy back. He is the happiest sweetest thing you will ever meet. I can't belive that this happened. This mistake slid by 2 nurses. The one who gave it to him, and the one who checked it. I always thought of the PICU as a safe place, and now I want to throw up everytime I walk in there.

When they did the compressions on his chest it may have damaged his surgical wound, as they did them right over the incision. So if he recovers from all of this we may have to come back up and have it done again. How am I supposed to do that? I just want out of this place, and to never come back again. Andy was going to go back to work last night till all of this happened, and now he has lost his job. Thank goodness for all of the wonderful friends that we have and the outreach of support that we have had. I love all of them dearly. Well I better get back to my little guy, and I will update later.