Our Fighter Boy

post cardiac arrest day #6

Izhar’s not in a great state.

the past two months have been a ride. but on 1 Aug, saturday at 930pm, we have unknowingly got on an absolutely tumultous roller-coaster ride. and til now, we are still unsure of where the ending point will be.

1 Aug. 930pm.

Izhar had a cardiac arrest.

We were there when it happened. And it happened in an instant. His big eyes were wide open and his body stiffened up for a whole minute, before he went limp. Immediate resucitation was done. CPR, drugs to stimulate the heart, a code blue was called to get the anaethesist (sp) because they couldn’t set his line to run the drugs. it took an approximate 25-30mins before they managed to get a faint heart beat and his blood pressure. Even then, the lil one woke up at 330am and was reacting to us when we called out to him.

Next day things were not too great. We were told that we could lose him anytime and were told to inform family and friends. Also, the reason why this most likely happened was due to sepsis shock. As he had a fungul infection since 2 weeks back and it was in his blood stream.

Fast forward to today - 7 Aug.

Its almost a week since the incident. He made it through the last few days, but we were told to be prepared for things related to the long resucitation period. Namely - organ failure and severe brain dmage. His liver and kidneys pulled through though there is still damage. And today, a ct-scan was done to check on his brain function. Reason why this was proposed to be done was because he was showing signs of having fits the previous night. His tongue was twitching incessantly and he had a series of eyebrow twitching too.

Scan was done. Results came back. Izhar has suffered damage to both the frontal lobes as well as the cerebellum. There is also some bleeding which thus far should be able to recede on its own.

Apart from that, he has four toes on his right foot which after being assessed by the ortho doctor, has been diagnosed to be ‘dead’ - As quite a high dose was used to stimulate his blood pressure, this is the results of the side-effect of the medication that was used to stimulate his blood pressure.

And being ‘dead’, this may most likely mean that they have to remove them once he overcomes the current situation.

thus far. thats what we are understanding. now is for us to just observe and see how he does as he is still pretty much sleeping due to the medication given for the fits.

so. its literally - wait and see.

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