Trying to ride out the drops on the rollercoaster

You know that it is going to be a bumpy day when the doctor calls you in the morning. My son took a turn for the worse last night shortly after I left and his O2 saturation began to drop and his breathing became compromised even within a 40% O2 environment. When we called last night close to midnight they were minutes from putting a chest tube in his side to relieve a pneumothorax they had discovered via x-ray. The cause is unknown is often happens in the first couple days of life but not later on. The doctor called it strange. Not the reassurnace you necessarily need. They had to take out the first tube (very small) in the night since the pneumothorax was recoccuring and replace it with the standard chest tube to keep it draining. X-rays show that the pneoumothorax was almost completely resolved by 11:30. He's still got the IV plus a line into the artery in his wrist for blood work. At least they are giving him a little morphine. Three more days on the ventilator and we'll see where he is at. It's been a very tough day. Two steps back, one step forward.