Monday, February 27th

Will had a decent day... he remained stable. Not much really changed.

He hasn't had anymore bloody stool, and he seems to feel better than he did over the weekend. He had a couple of small spells this evening where he was very mad... it seemed to me that he was suffering from withdrawl since his morphine drip has been turned off. They have been giving him doses here and there, especially when they do his chest dressing changes, which are every 4 hours! They have to do it so often because the docs want his incision to stay as dry as possible so it can heal. The bad part about doing so many dressing changes is that his skin is raw where the bandages are taped down and removed over and over again.

Will's hermadocrite dipped down again, so he required another blood transfusion today. This wasn't that big of a deal. In fact, the pediatric general surgical team said they won't come back to check up on him unless something happens and he isn't stable anymore.

The docs also had to increase his ventilator rate from 30 to 34 because his CO2 level had increased when they did a blood gas this evening. This should be easily weaned down when Will is feeling better.