It has been a long night and day for Dallas and company (i.e. Mom and Dad!). The repositioning of Dallas's central IV line went smoothly. His face became increasingly weak throughout the day yesterday and by late last night, it was very swollen and hardly moving at all. We got the surgical team to order a steroid to help with the swelling. Because Dallas only has one kidney, we have to avoid anti-inflammatorys which is tricky in these situations when he could benefit from them. At any rate, the steroid seems to be helping and the swelling around his eyes has come down dramatically. This has helped some with the facial weakness. The surgeon came by this morning and said because it is NOT total facial paralysis, the weakness should improve over the next several weeks.
He threw up 3 times over night when we tried to get some pedialyte in his stomach. He has been up since 4am today and has only slept about 30 minutes of the entire day. He has since kept down 3 bottles of milk, but does not have much of an appetite for anything else. Overall, not a happy camper, but does seem to be getting some of his spunk back in the last hour.
We are hoping to be discharged late today.
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