Dec 7th- Spinal Tap

Saturday Dec 7th

We had another good day at the hospital Wyatt has been doing better. He decided it would be okay to hold it in his mouth. He didn't really suck on it. It barely fit in his little mouth.  You can see his hair really well in this pic. We are thinking he is going to be a little blondie, but who knows at this point. 

He looked so comfortable all day

Because of some of his lab levels Heidi and the doctors were concerned there was something else from an infection standpoint and the team decided to look at doing a lumbar puncture to extract central spinal fluid to check for Meningitis.  They roll him on his side and then one nurse pushes his knees up to his chest to curve his back while another nurse finds the spacing between two vertebrae and pokes him with a needle. Its pretty crazy to watch because they pierce the skin and then the nurse continues to slowly push the needle in until she meets resistance and feels a little "pop" and then they are through his little disc. Its done the same way for women when they get an epidural.  The needle they use has two parts. it is a needle within a needle.  It looks solid if you were to look down from the top. So what they do to not allow blood or skin to contaminate the test is they use this needle. They  go and poke him and get it in the right depth and they pull the middle needle out so the one that is left in his back in the picture here is now hollow. Once they pulled it out, this clear liquid just like water started dripping out and the nurse collects it. Luckily the test for Meningitis came back negative. He didn't even flinch while they did it. He did awesome. 

They have to perform his lumbar puncture in a sterile environment so I had to put on a mask and hair net.