Done With The OR

Jayden had his bronchoscopy and the flexible tube down his nose. They decided not to do the larynxoscopy because his larynx looked normal and he had a lot of inflammation they want to minimize causing extra inflammation.

He does have some trancheomalacia and a lot of bronchialmalacia, which pretty much means the cartilage in his trachea and bronchial tubes is very soft and floppy and collapses easily with inflammation.

His left lung had some thick mucus and was inflamed, but is right lung had a lot of mucus and was very inflamed. She tried to suction some of it out, but his right lung kept collapsing in on it. They sent samples to the lab to be tested, which may or may not tell us much.

I asked her about the cystic fibrosis and she just said we'll wait to see what the pathology reports say. They may tell us something or may not, they are not all conclusive. He will still do the sweat test when we can.

For now he is sleeping off the anesthesia and they are going to continue giving him steroids to help reduce the inflammation.

He is also going to do a course of antibiotics in case there is bacteria growing in his lungs.

We'll update everyone when we know more.