and Zach said...let it be done now

im writing this from the familiar setting of the PICU at scott and white. we arrived here at 1am this morning, after sitting in the ER at our local hospital from 830pm on. Zach began to desat, dipping to the 50's on his pulse ox, we bumped his oxygen from 1 litter to 2 and later to 3, we deep suctioned we gave breathing treatment and finally got him to 88% then he slowly started dropping back to 80 even at 3 litters...at this point we called 911. during this time, zach also had head twitching and later a arching of his back, head turned and arms out straight for a few seconds. i believe he had a seziure. zach is now doing well...at 1 litter of oxygen and satting at 99%. the pulmonologist called the neurologist and they decided to up his seziure medication and to get the EEG a few days early...we are currently 2.5 hours into our 24 hour eeg. i asked the pulmo if the seziures could have caused him to desat and he said yes, and that he suspects thats what occured, so we will wait and see what the results say. hopefully this stay will be even shorter than our last 11 day stay.