Saturday, 2/12

We just got back from visiting Dinky. In general he's had a good day. They are trying to lower his vent settings and unfortunately he didn't tolerate it. He had several episodes of "brady" (heart dropping) and low oxygen so they had to "bag him" (they disconnect the vent and breathe for him with a mask that they hand squeeze). He didn't tolerate a vent setting of 25 so it went back up to 30. The good news is he's only on supplemental oxygen at 25 percent...21 percent is room air. So that's good. They didn't try to feed him again today, maybe tomorrow. He has eye patches on because he's under a bright light for jaundice. Anyway, they took his eye patches off for a little bit. While it's so nice to see his full face, it's also very painful. Just to look into those little eyes breaks my heart. Right now he definitely has Martin's eyes. The nurses are all calling him Dinky. Poor guy. In fact the nurse put a sign on his isolette about something and she addressed it: Ruef, Dinky. That's it for tonight.