4 months old

My precious boy is four months old today. Guess what he got for his four month birthday? A nitric vent and some viagra. Wow, what a great gift. The attendings change at the beginning of each week, and Dr. Gessouroun has some new ideas for Maverick's little heart. He's trying him on inhaled nitric oxide, it's a gas that goes through his ventilator and it dilates his pulmonary arteries. The thinking is that by dilating the pulmonary arteries, his right ventricle won't have to work so hard. He has also stopped the milrinone and is starting him on viagra - yes, viagra. It is used the same was as the nitric, just in an oral form. They're starting the viagra today and in a few days will wean him off the nitric vent. FYI - viagra was first used for issues like this, but the side effect caused a lot of attention... He is still very puffy and his output was slowing down when I left today. Just keep praying - there has to be a reason for all this. I did get to talk to the infectious disease doctor today, and he's not going to start him on ampho-b, but he is going to have an itraconazole level drawn to see if it's in a therapeutic range (that's the med he's been on for a long time for mold infection). He talked about switching it to IV, but couldn't because of Maverick's kidneys. He's also having his urine collected from tonight and spun down. They'll take the sediment in the lab and see if there is any mold growth. There just has to be an explanation for all this. I just want him to get better so badly. jc