Sunday

Not much new to report today. He had a decent day, I guess he was a bit irritated. I would be too with all the tubes and machines. So they gave him a little bit of pain medicine and something to calm him down, and it helped him to keep his blood pressure down. The feedings are going well still, they increased the amount and he was able to go number two (sorry but I had to add that, because we were really excited that he could do that). He is still having some issues with his lungs, his chest x-ray was still not better. They are running more tests to see if it is an infection or if the little valve in his heart has reopened. If it has reopened, they may still need to do the surgery on his heart. The one good thing about the surgery is that once they close it, it won't open again. With the medication they used to close it the first time, I guess it is common and probable that it would open again. But it is still surgery- so that scares us. We'll know about that probably tomorrow or Tuesday after they do a heart echo. They'll also do a follow up on the chest and the brain ultrasound tomorrow. I'm not sure when they'll report results, we're hoping tomorrow night. They also turned off the sunbathing lights...so he gets to rest more.

On a good note, our wonderful nurse Tabitha let me give him a kiss today. She opened up the isolette (their word for little incubator) for a few minutes so I could get closer to him and see him better, rather than through the plastic. We love our nurses and nurse practitioner, the people that take care of these little babies are so amazing. It is so comforting when we go home to know that he is in such great hands.