Rough Days for Landon :( 3 weeks old today!

            This yeast infection that Landon has is really getting my poor baby down. :(  On the 5th his fever wouldn't break and he started having problems with his blood pressure.  At 2:37 AM on 2/6/11 my phone started ringing and it was Egleston.  Thomas and I knew something wasn't good because they don't call you in the middle of the night for good news.  So of course we threw clothes on and rushed up to Egleston.  Landon had been desating as far as the 50's for his O2 saturations since midnight.  They had to bump him up to 100% oxygen and the highest settings on his ventilator along with putting him on nitric oxide to keep him stable.  He had to be put on a lot of blood pressure support to keep it stable.  Then around 9AM or so they called and needed consent to put a new central line in so they could remove the one in his neck.  They believe that the cause of the infection was the old one in his neck.  We gave consent and tried to get a little more sleep.  They called us again and said that their attempt failed and wanted to take him to OR and see if they could place one in the other side of his neck.  They did an ECHO before they took him to see how his pulmonary hypertension was and it was very severe.  Almost as bad as when he was on ECMO.  So Dr. Moore then canceled taking him to OR.  He felt that it was too risky to move him with his pulmonary hypertension so severe.  They wanted to try for another groin attempt for the central line.  So he called his friend that was a Cardiologist to come take a look to see if he could get it in.  He was able to get it in.  So they got the old one out.  Landon had a pretty calm night.  No phone call in the middle of the night last night.  Called to check on him this morning and he was still on a lot of blood pressure support but they were able to wean him down on his ventilator settings! Thank God.  I was talking to Thomas the other night and said you know Landon has been through more in his 3 weeks of life than most people go through in their entire life.  He is a little fighter.  We ask that you continue to pray for our sweet little boy because we know that God still works miracles all the time!