August 24, 2006

Our family meeting today went well. The doctor said straight out to us that she really doesn't know what caused Aidento get sick this past week end but it does look to her like colitis. If it is NEC or just a non specific colitis she doesn't know, so they are treating it the same as if it were NEC, which is 14 days on the antibiotics and no feeds. She said as of right now she thinks she will wait out the 14 days. If it was a non specific colitis then we could feed him again now but since we are not 100% sure we will probably have to stick to the 14 days NPO (NPO means no food).
Besides being hungry, he seems really happy. He's was puffy again so they gave him some lasix and wrote the script for diarell, which is another diaretic. He will now get that every 12 hrs. It works like lasix but it's not as strong of a kicker. It's more of a long term med, which if fine because I know he needs it right now.
Tonight he has been on 25 ml or less of oxygen and they even tried him at room air a few times but that only last a few minutes before he would start to dip below 87. (His blood oxygen level needs to be 87 or higher) So to some up the last 24 hrs, he had a good night and a good day, was happy but hungry and is once again on the rise to improvment and close to being home with his mommy and daddy. He also got the repogal tube out today. That is the tube that rtavels from his mouth to his tummy to suck out the air and anything that goes in there. Since his belly is not distended they stopped the suction yesterday. Then took the tube out today since there was nothing building up in the belly. With that said, this means I took some new pics. YAY
Oh and get this (I know he has a lot of fluid on him right now but) he is weighing in at 3 pounds 15 ounces.. Can you believe it. I am sure once the lasix kicks in and the diarell does it's job, he will pee off a lot of the fluid and then we will know what his true weight is. But for now he is almost a 4 pounder...