Giving his Body a Break

We had a rough night.  

Mathew and I stayed by his bed all night except for a shower and a one hour nap from 3-4am.  When we were power walking back down to PICU I said to Mathew "yesterday was bad but today will be better". 

They didn't give us his blood results through the night so were anxious to hear how he'd improved.  Some levels were up but others were down.  Hunter has a 50/50 chance of survival.  Well Mathew and I decided to take that as a positive.  50% is still a pass right?  And besides, we'd given him a strong name, he'd be strong for us.

Hunter was making little cries which I was able to settle him and calm him, like a Mum should.  We thought this was a good sign, he had fight in him!

Later that morning Hunter was still having the apnaec episodes.  The Clinical Director came in to see Hunter and decided that his body needed to have a rest so they were going to put him on a machine to help him breathe.  Just to give his body a break.

It wasn't until much later we would learn what this was.  Life Support.

Today was not better.