Day 2

It's not even noon, but there is a lot to report. Cole slept really well compared to his average when he is in the hospital. I was in the bed with him and he would just roll over and put his hand on me throughout the night to make sure that I was still there. The only thing that really messed him up was all of the glucose checks. His blood sugar went down to 24 around 6 am. So we had to give him apple juice and see if it went back up. He also did not have a wet diaper for 14 1/2 hours. They did a bladder scan and saw that it was full, so they gave him one more hour before they were going to put a catheter in. 15 minutes before the crew got here, with some help from the other side, he finally went-one trauma averted. When they re-checked his blood sugar it was okay, so they took forever to get the IV in and proceeded with the plan for the spinal tap. Here is where it gets fun.

This is a teaching hospital, so the attending was there with a Med student and a fellow. The nurse practicioner that was doing the anethesia and his regular nurse were also there. I told them that he was strong and it took a lot to knock him out. They just kind of nodded and smiled.

They started out slow with small doses of meds and tried to get him to hold still;) Cole maxed out his dose of Versed and Ketamine. He almost maxed out on Fentanyl. He was still moving and crying and had 2 grown men and 3 women trying to hold him down. I told them he was strong ;) One lady had her feet braced against the wall and her whole body on top of him. After 5 tries with three different doctors, they just threw up their hands and said, "We have never seen a kid like this. He's broken all of the records". One even said that he should get a t-shirt for maxing out on all sedation meds and still be kicking. Not necessarily a record that we can be proud of, but hey-maybe we can get our picture on the wall!During all of this, his IV blew, turning his hand purple and his arm was swollen from fingertips to elbow. We heard "I'm sorry" a lot during all of this. That was nice. SO-we came back into the room and got another IV. Rechecking his blood sugar he was back down to 37. More juice! By this time, he is pleasantly goofy and continues to be entertaining. Someone said that all of those drugs would put someone into a coma-Cole should be sleeping; he's eating eggs and Skyping with grandma :) That's my warrior!