A Week of “New”

 

Elias has an odor from his trach tube. That is never a good thing and usually an early indicator of something bad. However and thankfully he was presenting with none of the other usual suspects of symptoms. We still felt the need to contact Dr. Wood, Elias’ pulmonologist. Our thought was possibly that the pseudomonas he is colonized with might be flaring up. Dr. Wood agreed, but since there were no other symptoms it wasn’t worth doing a culture. We would just treat this presumptuously, as Dr. Wood put it, because Elias can not be trusted! Especially when it comes to that tenuous airway, again his words. Elias amuses him and challenges him at the same time and he has told us on many occasion that he sleeps better knowing we are his parents. We appreciated that compliment coming from one of the worlds top pulmonary doctors very much! So we are giving him Gentamicin for the next 10 days in hopes that this clears up the issue.