Monday, January 14, 2013 - Day 9

Well today was filled with a lot of emotions. To sum it all us, Ian's left lung has collapsed again....this mornings x-ray showed this. During rounds, they informed us they were looking at doing another bronchoscopy , possibly as early as 6:00 tonight. We had a lot of questions. I wanted to talk to Ian's pulmonologist  ...he was off campus today, so another attending and his fellow came up to talk with us. That was good as we had meet with his fellow a few times. We sat down with them, along with my mom and Brian's parents...we went over some options and talked about the pros and cons of them all. It was decided we would make sure his bi-pap mask was secure, work on getting his pain and anxiety under control...we are hoping that once we get that under control maybe he will remain calm and not have to use as much energy fighting things and can use that energy on the getting well. We decided that we would do these things and get another chest x-ray at 4:00. So the 4:00 x-ray showed a little bit of improvement leading all the MD's to agree to hold off on doing another bronchoscopy for 6:00 but we would do another x-ray at 10:00pm. So that is where we currently are...waiting for another x-ray....