Today has seen several events to bring some comfort for Sam. During the middle of the night the last two nights, Sam has woke up in a panic due to gurgling water in his CPAP facemask. The gurgling water built up condensation in his facemask and was basically shooting water up his nose as he was trying to sleep.
The respiration manager today was able to rig up a heated CPAP tube similar to the one that Sam uses on his home CPAP machine. The heated hose keeps the water in heated vapor form and keep the condensation from building up. Please pray that this solution works for Sam tonight and the rest that Sam gets is better and not interruped by CPAP issues.
Another effort to bring comfort today was several hospital staff members getting creative to release the pressure on Sam's ears from the head harness. Sam had been in quite a bit of pain earlier today from his ears being smashed under the head harness. You can see from the picture below that the staff members cut holes in the head harness and also used some foam padding under the harness to make it softer against his ears.
Sam had a short MRI this morning also to make sure the pain that he was in was only from the ears and not something internal being caused by the traction. The doctors reported that everything was progressing well. They weren't willing to say how much progress has been made in comparison to what is needed. It is all in God's hands so pray hard for the movement that is needed to avoid halo traction.
Sam also had a visit from Grandma and Grandpa Nelson today who brought along Colin and Nathan. It was good for the family to be together for the couple of hours that they were here.
Sam has short periods of time where we get him off the traction and out of bed. He really enjoys these short breaks.
The Ronald McDonald House continues to bless us as Kim had a full night sleep there last night and I will this evening. Kim had a dinner last night there provided by the Notre Dame Club of Chicago and I will have dinner there tonight provided by another group. The house is a short 2 block walk to the hospital.
Please continue to pray for Sam for comfort as the pain has been off and on. Also, please pray that God would allow the halter traction to make the progress needed. Sam asked today how long the traction will last and it will break my heart even further to tell him that another more painful version of traction is needed.
Jesus knew Sam before he was born and has a grand plan in all this for His glory. We are just hanging on for dear life on the roller coaster ride that we are on.
Thanks for riding with us and providing love, support, friendship, and prayers.
Peace of Christ to you all.
Poor Child, why do he need this?
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