Wed. March 5th

For the first night, since entering the ICU, Colton stayed stable all night. Throughout Wed. morning his numbers all looked really good. Around noon he started needing 100% oxygen again.
His Dr. came in at 1:00 to check on him, and by 1:40 Coltons situation was desperate. He had a neumothorax that caused his chest to fill up with air. It crowded his heart, and it could no longer beat. They did chest compressions, released the air around the heart with a needle, and then put in a chest tube. As soon as the chest tube was in place infection started pouring out.

Colton's family was told to call everyone together because he wasn't going to make it much longer. By the time they all got to the hospital Colton was stable, and doing better than he had in days.

The Doctors said that it was lucky that he had a neumothorax, or they may not have discovered the infection in the lining of his lungs. It had not shown up on the Cat scan. They ended up putting a chest tube in on the other side too.

Colton was so puffed up with air, and fluids that he was unrecognizable. We didn't take any pictures for a few days.