Sunday, 2/20

I've had a little trouble with this site today so hopefully this will work. We've just gotten home from seeing our little fellar. Unfortunately today is not a very good day although we can't find a concrete reason why. Dinky had many, many episodes of brady and apnea and just generally looked uncomfortable. They did a blood gas to check his new vent settings and that seemed fine. He's now at 32 (remember he had been at 40-45) and his oxygen is between 25 and 30 (with 21 being room air). The blood gas shows us that he's tolerating that setting okay. When we left they were doing some blood work to make sure he doesn't have an infection although he doesn't show any clinical signs (no fever, etc.) So maybe it's just an "off" day. The good news is he is eating a lot and his weight is up to 1150 (they're sticking to the 1130 from yesterday). He's now taking 3.5 mL every hour and they will increase it be .5 every 12 hours as long as he's tolerating it. Since he was so sensitive to any touching or commotion I didn't change his diaper again today...I think he's still traumatized from yesterday! Hopefully tomorrow we'll have a better report.