When we arrived this morning, we saw the surgeon walking into the NICU. He stopped and told us that Memphis did well last night. His oxygen numbers have been doing well, staying above the threshold they have set for him, and typically staying at the maximum. All of his blood gases have been excellent so far. They have been good enough that they have weaned his ventilator flow down slightly. Due to the threat of pulmonary hypertension reoccurring they will not wean his oxygen numbers down much until after he has recovered more completely. Dr. Anderson said that one of the more optimistic things that has come out of all of this is that after removing the dialysis machine, and fluids collecting (which is a typical response of being removed from dialysis), his lungs did very well and he was able to tolerate it very well.
They will place him back on dialysis later today. They will be taking a small amount of fluid from him, when they can. It is still important that he doesn't accrue a lot of fluid inside. They feel fairly confident that he will urinate on his own while on dialysis, if they allow his kidneys to rest a while longer.
We still have no word on when they will plan the repair survey for the hernia. We were told it can be done while on dialysis, but they probably will not do it until after he urinates on his own. The reason for this is that obviously the surgery will not fix his kidneys, and that is the bigger issue right now.
We will keep you updated.
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