Caden’s Page

Caden was discharged this evening. The surgery was cancelled for a couple of reasons. The first reason is that all surgeries at MUSC are cancelled for Friday 9/5/2008 due to potential tropical storm conditions along the SC coast. The second reason Caden will not have this ENT and general peds surgery is that the cardiologist […]

We are still here and may be here up into the weekend based on events of today. Sherry had a bunch of doctors come by today. We finally got to see some familiar faces with Caden’s ENT doctor, general surgeon, and endocrinologist stopping by. Rough Night Last night (Monday night) was very rough for Caden. […]

We are still at MUSC and the source of the fevers has not been identified. Caden has been on and off of oxygen for the past 24 hours. His O2 sats were dropping into the 80s without oxygen. His normal range is 97+. His heart defects did not affect his SATS the way some kids […]

Caden is being admitted to MUSC after the ER visit mentioned in the previous post. The fever he had when Sherry left for the hospital earlier today took four hours to break. Sherry and the ER doctor hit it off really well. The doctor was very straight forward and transparent about his line of thinking […]

We got to bring Caden home today.  He was so happy that he was given all the nurses two thumbs up and grinning from ear to ear. The doctors were looking for Caden to go 24 hours without fever and be able to sustain his O2 saturation levels in the mid 90s on room air.  […]

Caden was admitted to MUSC for observation late Monday night due to low O2 sat levels caused by pneumonia. He is being given Rocephin shots. These are high powered antibiotic shots used to fight life-threatening bacterial infections. Caden has been on these Rocephin shots before. You may remember back in November 2006 when is fever […]