Thursday morning, 2/17

Just a quick update from overnight...One of the problems with the Indocin that he is receiving for his PDA is urine output being limited. So by 2 am when he was to have his 2nd dose he had not had enough output so they held it. They gave it to him at 4am after he peed just a little bit. So he hopefully will get his 3rd dose at 4pm if he contines to have a little output. His chest xray looked a little better and his vent settings are being slowly decreased. He's at 43 now with 25 percent oxygen (versus 45 with 21 percent). They up his oxygen a little to compensate for the lower vent setting. They are going very slowly and so far he seems to be tolerating it okay.

The night nurse took pictures last night since he has his little eye patches off. We will also be getting up there with a camera soon. It's been hard before now because you really couldn't see his cute little face. We will definitely work on getting some pictures available, thank you all for asking about him. I can't tell you how good it makes us feel to know this little boy is so loved.

One thing I forgot to mention. The night I got home from the hospital we ordered Chinese food. My fortune cookie said, "The path of life shall lead upwards for you". After the pain and heartbreak of the week prior to that it definitely felt good to read that. It's a keeper.