Last night and today Toby is still needing lots of oxygen to keep his saturations up even when he's awake. We ended up taking him to the ER today because something just doesn't seem right. They did a head CT to see if it was his shunt, a chest x-ray, x-rays of his shunt and tubing to see if it was kinked. They took blood, etc., etc., etc., and he's fine. Nothing is showing up. The minute we shut off the O2, though , he desaturates and so the conclusion is that he has a virus, even though he has no runny nose or cough. We are back home now, and we will keep him on O2 through the weekend; if things still seem fishy, and he continues to act strange, we will pursue more with his shunt next week. Sometimes a shunt can be failing and it doesn't show up, even with all of the tests they did.
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