question: My son was intubated because he went in to a myxe dema coma. I was a stickler about keepin him on propofol because he had been HARD to extubate before, several times before. After nine days his abdomen bloated so severely that they wanted to cut him open and leave him open because he was born with Prune Belly syndrome and had MANY surgeries during his lifetime. We decided to let the pulmonologist extubate and let him pass. He had recieved a new kidney just shy of a year before this and the bloating had cut off his blood supply and ruined the kidney. I am tormented. I feel it was my fault.