Monday evening, 2/21

Dinky 

Here's our boy. He gave us a fit today! He continued to have episodes of brady and apnea while we were there today. It was so hard. I think we were both just incredibly drained (and Dinky, too!) Finally, the doctor the nurse and the respiratory therapist were all working with him and suctioned out a big plug of mucus. That seemed to do the trick because he really settled down after that. His vent setting is down to 28 so that's pretty good but he is requiring about 40% oxygen. His chest xray shows that his left lung is still a little puny. The weird thing is they had put a little metal "clip" on his esophagus to mark it on xrays. Well, in the xray today they can see that it came off and is now in his stomach!! They have reassured us that it's nothing to worry about and he'll just poop it out but we're a little worried nonetheless. The doctor likened it to when a child swallows a small coin and says he won't feel a thing. So we'll see how that goes. Other than that he's trucking right along. We were able to snap this picture today when his little "house" was open.