DAY 136

Just when we thought that everything's going well, ethan contracted another infection, this time viral - para-influenza, type 3, the nasty type.

It was discovered last Saturday after the doc ordered a nose swab, when ethan started breathing harder. Days 5-6 is the peak of the infection, today is the 6th day. He is back in Hi-D, on the hated C-pap, with a nasty sounding cough.

The good news is his yesterday's chest xray shows improvement in the infection, and his lungs sound clear today.

The bad news is that he had 2 frights yest afternoon and again last night, the 2nd compounded onto the 1st, making him extremely fretful and jumpy that he dare not sleep altho he looks so tired, and when he does doze off from sheer exhaustion, he jumps up from his sleep every few minutes. He watches any stranger near him wearily till they go away, and whimpers if he is touched or at any attempts to put him down on his bed. He also can't maintain his O2 saturation, breathing very hard, shallow & fast.

Apparently what happened was the tape holding the c-pap in place gave way, and the device sprung and hit him on the face and woke him so abruptly that he had a bad scare. Took the whole afternoon to calm him down, holding him closely. Then at night, the tape came loose again, so when the nurse changed it he somehow got another bad scare that set his heart rate racing for quite a while.