Thursday, 2/10

Me again. Today was an "okay" day. Dinky was a little up and down with his heart rate and oxygen saturation rate, but somehow even with that he didn't seem unstable per se. His rates always quickly came back up and other than on 2 occasions he didn't get really low. Maybe I am just getting used to all of the alarming and the little scares. They think his "desats" (when his oxygen goes down) were due to tube placement (this seems to fluctuate as his swelling fluctuates) and he also has a little fluid in his lungs. So they're giving him a medication called Lasix to try and get rid of the fluid. His feeding has increased. He's now getting 5.5 mL an hour for 10 hours, break for 2, and then 10 more hours of 5.5. So that's great! The doctor said he has a few "tricks up his sleeve" to treat the swelling and that he thinks we'll see a big difference by Monday. I'm gonna take him to the bank on that one! Tomorrow we will get the 48 hours results of his blood culture which we are anxiously awaiting. If the culture hasn't "grown anything" we can feel fairly confident that he doesn't have an infection starting. That will be a big relief. So our Dinky keeps on trucking....