You Caught Me!

The picture pretty much says it all! I lost track of him for like... 30 seconds while cleaning up breakfast and this is where I found him! Like a good mom, I let him continue his snack while I grabbed the camera! :)

HUGE news!!!

So I have been trying to get another sleep study aranged for Gage, since the doctor told us he wanted one done 3 months after Gage's last surgery, to see if the tonsils and adnoids were causing any of the sleep apnea Gage was having. In order for our insurance to consider covering another sleep study, they require a home oxymetry test to be done. So on Thursday night, we hooked Gage up to the monitor we have at home and took off his oxygen to see how he would do without it. Then yesterday morning I took it in to our home care facility to have them read the results from it so they could get sent back up to Primary Childrens. After the results were read, I asked them for a copy so I could see how he was doing. Back during his last sleep study, Gage was having an average of 24 apneas (periods where there was a decrease of oxygen saturation by 4% or more during no more than a 3 minute period of time). Pretty much, he would stop breathing about 24 times an hour. Looking at the results from Thursday night, they pulled information from 6 hours of the night. Gage had a TOTAL of 29 apneas the entire night! That is an average of almost 5 an hour! So he went from 24 an hour down to less than 5!!! Oh I probably don't even have to tell you how happy I was about this!! 10+ apneas is considered severe apnea. 5-10 is considered moderate apnea, and 1-4 apneas is mild. That puts us right on the edge of mild sleep apnea! And last time, Gage spent about 12% of the night below 90%, and Thursday night he only spent .3% of the night below 90%! I just really hope that the official sleep study shows this great of results again!

So that is my good news for the day, so exciting huh!!!