Furrby had finally made his appearance and my oh my was it a dramatic one! Our son, Andre Deangelo Furr made his debut April 9th, 2014 at 3:20 in the afternoon. He weighed 6lbs and 1oz. A very long and dramatic labor and delivery ended with Andre being life flighted to IU North hospital (a riley hospital) to be in a NICU that could support his medical needs.
After the transport team took him away Dr. Riggins, the hospital's pediatrician that worked on Andre after he was born, talked to us to make sure we knew what all the transport team said and gave us the scoop on his status.
-When Andre was born he was not breathing on his own.
-Lack of breathing caused his heart beat to be pretty much non existent.
-They preformed CPR on him to get his heart going. Once his heart was going it never was a problem again.
-They intubated him so that they could manually breathe for him.
-The top portion of his right lung was collapsed.
-He had a pneumothorax or "air leak" in his chest cavity causing air to build up around his lungs.
This is all of the information we knew from the time he was transported. Once the Riley doctor, Dr. Hoesli, called me we had more information to go on. This is what she told me on top of everything else that we knew:
-The collapsed portion of his lung was because the tube he was intubated with was pushed a little too far in. They pulled it back slightly and expected a full recovery of the lung.
-New xrays showed that he did not in fact have a pneumothorax and what they saw on the xray should correct itself on its own.
-He was anemic and needed a blood transfusion, None of the doctors know why exactly he was anemic as they cannot find any time or way that he would have lost any significant amounts of blood.
-He was still intubated at first but he was breathing some on his own.
-He quickly became jaundiced and was put under the bili lights to help break down the bilirubin in his system.
-He had gotten some sort of infection, most likely when I got my fever before delivery, but the blood work was inconclusive since my doctors had given me some antibiotics before surgery. The antibiotics were working on him but made the cultures of his blood inconclusive so they didn't know what kind of infection he had.
-They put in a central line which essentially is an iv in his umbilical cord so they could give him medicine without sticking him over and over.
I took notes so I wouldn't forget anything and made sure I had her spell things if I wasn't sure how to. I was able to call Dr. Hoesli at any time throughout the night so that helped me feel a little less useless. Being stuck in a hospital in a different city than your sick baby is just the worst feeling in the whole world. My dad and sisters came up on Wednesday night to be with me and Allie even stayed in the hospital with me over night. She is always good to help keep things light and airy and we had a good time, considering. Thursday morning my mom, Abbie and my dad came back to the hospital and my sisters were nice enough to run to my house back in Lafayette to get my breast pump and some other things I didn't think that I would need with me. My doctor did her best and I was released Thursday early evening...probably around 5:30. I was in pain but so relieved to be able to see my baby. My mom ran to get my prescriptions filled then we were off to IU North.
*I apologize if the information in this post isn't organized very well. I was trying to make sure I got in the right information and didn't focus on organization very well.*
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