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His family are dear friends of ours, a part of our church family, and fellow Brenner's hospital 'residents' (just on different floors). Nicholas is having surgery to remove his tonsils and adenoids on Wednesday morning at 8:30am. For a typical child this is not a severe risk, but for Nicholas it is...
You see, Nicholas was born with Downs' syndrome and a congenital heart defect. He had successful heart surgery and crashed a week afterward. He was resuscitated and brought back to life after being down for a long time. Nicholas now faces lifelong challenges that make the little things so much more difficult. His precious mother has had to resuscitate him once since and he has been hospitalized numerous times. Tomorrow's surgery is another hurdle in his race...
1. He has a low pain tolerance. When he is in pain, he shuts down.
2. This pain could lead to cardiac or respiratory arrest-again..for the 3rd time.
3. Nicholas coughs up his secretions. After surgery it will be too painful therefore he has a high risk of pneumonia.
4. If he becomes too traumatized by the pain from coughing he could potentially not do it again. If he does not cough them up, he will have a higher chance of lung illnesses which could lead to getting a trach.
5. There is a higher chance of him contracting some illness by being in the hospital from 2-10 days.
Please lift up sweet Nicholas, his medical team, his parents, and his sweet siblings (who cannot come to the hospital because of H1N1 restrictions).
2 comments:
I'll pray for him.
Saying prayers.
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