Day 3 morning

9:54:00 AM Atticus Army 3 Comments

Hey Army,

Well we survived the night, although we didn't really sleep.  Atticus is currently on fluids and steroids to help with some of the inflammation in his brain.  We met with our team this morning and the plan is that Atticus will receive an Angiogram with possible embolism a little bit later this morning.  If you don't know what that is they will have to sedate him and they will run a catheter, most likely starting the femoral artery, and snake it all the way up to the tumor in his brain.  They can then use that imaging modality to get a better view of the arteries that are supplying the tumor. 

Because Atticus is so small they are very worried about blood loss.  Doing this procedure will help to visualize the vasculature architecture of the tumor in real time and if there are any large vessels they can embolize them so that those vessels can be taken care of prior to surgery, and by doing so have less bleeding during the operation.  Blood loss in a baby this small is of great concern so we are so grateful that they have the means to do these things to help.  One caviot of doing this is that the Atticus has to be very still for close to 6 hours after the angiogram.  I don't know about any of your 20 month olds, but I know our doesn't like to lay very still, expecially in the ICU, so he may have to be on ventilation for up to 6 hours after the proceedure.

Thanks for all your prayers, and for supporting us and Atticus. 

3 comments:

  1. We are adding your family to our prayer list. I am so sorry you're having to go through this.

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    1. Thank you so much Firefighterswife928!!! that helps so much, we need them.

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  2. Prayers, prayers, prayers for your family. Your experience touches close to home. We were at Fred Hutch/Swedish with our son. It's hard...but "do-able" because the Lord IS there. There WILL be strength beyond your own. Blessings of being on the temple prayer roll are REAL. Family, friends and even strangers' care and support make the logistics possible and modern technology and amazing medical staff give their best for you. Our love, take care. Thank you for doing a blog.

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