Sunday Night Update

Sorry for the long delay. Forgive me if I repeat stuff I have already updated. I am tired and unsure of where I have posted what.
We saw Dr. Osuntokun and he added an additional antibiotic to cover if we have an infection brewing. When he was there we were on our first unit of blood and all was good other than another high fever. Towards the end of our second unit of blood, Alex started to feel worse and was very short of breath. His oxygen saturation’s starting falling and we ere needing to increase the amount of oxygen he was on. We paged surgery and they decided to do a chest X-ray and a ct scan of his chest and abdomen. He continued to struggle despite being on 4 liters of oxygen which is the most you can be on through a nasal cannula. When we got back to the room he continued to decline. We put on a mask and increased his oxygen. Even at 12 liters he was not able to get out of the low 80’s. They put him on a non rebreather mask and were able to get him up to 92 at the 12 liters. Surgery and hospitalist came back and let us know that his chest X-ray showed pneumonia or atelactesis in both lungs and his Ct showed a small pulmonary embolism. At that point it was determined that the safest option was to move him to the PICU.  He is stable at this point. They are watching labs closely and are starting a heparin drip to break up the clot in his lungs. We are both exhausted and desperately need sleep. He was really scared earlier, but seems okay now. I am glad we are in the PICU where they can watch him closely. Please pray we can get some rest tonight. I plan to update in the morning.
Ali