Merry Christmas Eve

Sorry no photos! I left the photo download cord at home again. I will post pix and a video tomorrow, we took a video of him taking the bottle today and some really cute photos. Colt had a good day. He had two bottle feedings today, and one last night. We got some potentially "bummer" news....Colt has been monitored for ROP (Retinopathy of Prematurity) which is a condition that affects sight. He has a weekly eye exam, and the one he had on Sunday was questionable. They don't know if he has it, and if he does it would be the very early stages of it. It gets graded by four levels, one being the least and four the highest. He wasn't graded, they just said it might look like the onset of it. So they are doing another exam on Wednesday. If it is confirmed that he has it, then he will need another surgery. They will do laser eye surgery, but he will have to be put under again and intubated. They have a high success rate of correcting this, so if he does have it at least they caught it early. This condition is caused by too much oxygen, and since preemies are sometimes on oxygen support for long lengths of time- this ROP shows up. They will most likely do the surgery this week if he does have it.