Wednesday, 3/16

Today was a pretty good day for our little booger although he had a few rough patches late morning. He had several fairly significant brady and apnea episodes. There could be several factors contributing to this: he needs a blood transfusion based on some of his labs and the "ET" tube (connected to the ventilator)was too far down. After they fixed his tube he was a little better and hopefully he'll continue to improve after he gets his blood. Other than that there weren't many changes. We are again a little worried about infection. He has 8 "immature cells" (you're supposed to have 1 or 2) and that is concerning. They are doing more cultures so we'll see what happens with that. The doctor pretty much prepared us that another infection is inevitable at some point.

Dinky's favorite nurse is with him again tonight. She is so special and I sleep so soundly when I know she is there. She is working a few days overtime and when she calls in to see if they need her the question she asks before agreeing to come in is, "Do I get Ruef?" We are so thankful she's there to give him little back rubs and shampoo his hair.