Some good news and more peace

Okay, blogging kinda late tonight. We went to visit this morning and then again tonight at 9:00pm. We are trying to lay the girls down before we go so they wont know that we left! Kenley Grace does not like us leaving too much. So here goes the update...

They have now turned off the jaundice light off, which means he doesn't have to wear the goggles anymore so we can now see his whole face again! His white blood count is back up to 6.4 while yesterday it had been 2. It should be 10. So that is looking better today. I talked to the other doctor today for the first time. they say that he tends to paint a little blacker picture because he wants you to know ALL the possibilities. So he said that they were pretty concerned yesterday about his blood count, but today it is very encouraging! So that is good. He had an IV in his head yesterday, but today had it in his foot. The IV's do not last long before they go bad because his fluids are running so fast , they tend to go bad quicker. So tonight they are going to put in a PIC. Which is basically a central line, just inserted differently. This will be much better because it won't go bad for a long time and he will only need it, hopefully, for a week and a half. The GI doctor was tied up at Children's today, so he never made it by there. However, they said he isn't going to be that helpful anyway. he most likely will say "keep up he good work" and he may add something to his treatment. I feel that we have been waiting for a diagnosis, but today they said that the only way we will definitely get a diagnosis is if they see a pnuematosis on his xray. That would mean that he had a tear in the bowel lining and gas was escaping into the outer  bowel wall. (This is not a prefferation through the bowel wall, which would require surgery.) This would not require surgery, but is the classic definite sign of NEC. So, since he is getting better and should continue to get better, we will hopefully never get a definite diagnosis because it will never show up on his xray. The nurse practitioner tonight, which we happen to know, said that she plans on us taking home a healthy baby. She said he is looking better and this was caught so early. She feels he will continue to get better from here on out. So this is what we pray for. She gave me alot more peace about everything. 

This morning he was pretty fussy they said. He was mad that he was not getting fed! His nurse said she sat there holding his passy in and finally had to walk away to check on another baby. When she came back all his wires were disconnected from him and he was using his right foot to kick at his left foot where the IV was! Then once she got everything hooked back up he grabbed his suction tube and started yanking it and she wrestled with him to get him to let loose! So he is still active, thats good! He may have a little bit of attitude!! He slept every time we were there and they said he had been sleeping peacefully most of the afternoon/night. Thank you so much for your prayers! Good night!!!