My two warriors are one month old today.
For one month, they have made me laugh, made me cry, have brought me to my knees, and have shown me incredible strength.
The little guys have had several good days in a row. Wyatt is off of the nitric. Getting him off of nitric has been incredibly difficult and it had been because of his pneumonia. We've tried to get him off of it so many times that it's become a joke between us and the nurses.
First, we only whisper about weaning him from the nitric just so he doesn't find out what we're doing. And on his goals for the day, we joked about asking him to consider coming off the nitric.
Well, today he's off (but don't tell him yet!). We'll see how he does.
The antibiotics he's on for the pneumonia has given the poor sweet dear some awful diarrhea which has given him a diaper rash. We've gone through three different creams to try for it before finally finding one that seems to be helping.
Next week, Wyatt will get another head ultrasound to follow up on his brain bleed. He has a grade 1 bleed which is the smallest and usually resolves on its own. It has the smallest risk of causing any long term problems. Hopefully it has resolved.
Cameron has a really nice set of lungs. No really, we've seen the x-ray of them. Now if he would only remember to breathe...
For some reason, Cameron is having a harder time remembering to breathe than Wyatt. The doctor says it's either because of him being premature or because he has some brain inflammation from meningitis, which they are treating. They tried to do a lumbar puncture on him to find out, just as precaution since he has a blood infection. But it was unsuccessful and rather than try a third time, they went ahead and treated him as if he has it. She said it wouldn't be an "active" meningitis.
Anyway, he could probably move to a high flow cannula if he'd just remember to breathe.
So, lets celebrate their one month birthday.
What do micropremie's do for their one month birthday?
Well, you either dress up as a burrito with a binkie in your mouth, like Cameron
Or you air out your fanny, of course, like Wyatt
One month. I can't believe it!
Happy 1 month birthday boys! :)
ReplyDeleteRemember Lara, they're here, they're doing well, it'll be ok ;)