Friday, 3/4

Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday dear Dinky...Happy birthday to you! Yes, it's our little one's 4 week birthday. What a 4 weeks it's been. So today was okay. It got off to a great start when they start feeding Dinky again. We were thrilled! However, it was short lived. Dinky had been on a Fentanyl drip for sedation and pain relief purposes (sedation so he doesn't fight the ventilator and pain relief for the wound on his neck area). He can't be on the Fentanyl drip and "eat" at the same time as Fentanyl slows down the system too much. So they stopped the Fentanyl and started the feeds but later determined that the pain relief for that wound was more important, and also his blood gases demonstrated that he was fighting the vent a little. So it's disappointing but understandable. The mom in me just wants my kid to eat!!!

Otherwise he was pretty stable. They are having plastic surgery come back by to look at his wound. The thinking is that it may need to be "debrided", meaning the "dead" tissue that is on the surface of the wound may need to be removed giving new tissue a chance to form. This has definitely become more of an issue than we ever thought it would be.

I keep trying to type some sort of conclusion for this post and have deleted about 3-4 attempts. So I'll just say good night. "Good night". :)