Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Waiting patiently



I am starting to tell that he is losing weight no that I look back at pictures. he is starting to look like a skinny man instead of a fat baby. However, they told us that his weight loss should level off and he should slowly begin gaining weight even while he is on bowel rest with just the IV fluids. 

Okay, well some things have changed, but things are starting to calm down a bit. I think from now until he starts getting fed again there will probably not be too much news. At least I hope not, because he should just continue to get better. Which means that his xrays will keep looking good and he will pretty much keep looking good. Today his white count was 16.4 which is higher than normal but that shows that his body is trying to fight something. So that is much better than 2!!! His stools yesterday and last night were still testing positive for blood, although you still can not see it. However, he had 2 stools today and the first tested positive and the second tested negative. Yay! That is good. He is off the suction today. Since his xrays are looking good and his tummy is nice and soft they went ahead and took him off it. they sill have the tube in place though. The GI doctor came in this morning and agreed with treatment and wants to keep moving forward. He has his PIC line. They ended up putting it in his head, which I am glad because although it may look sad, he is less likely to mess with it or get a hold of it and pull.  He has been sleeping every time I've been today, which is good, because if he is asleep he doesn't know that he is hungry. They said last night he was fussy off and on and couldn't seem to get comfortable. When he is awake he knows that he is not being fed and he is not too happy about it. So when I'm there and he is sleeping I like to keep it that way. They are still doing the "reverse isolation" thing, where no one touches him without gloves. But we are also glad that he gets fussy and moves around and wakes up, because some babies get so sick they become so lethargic that they rarely move, even when getting stuck with a needle. So I am glad that he doesn't act sick. So right now just keep praying that he continues to heal every day and that when they start feeding him again that he takes it well and that we don't have anymore scares then. Thank you so much! We soooo appreciate all of your prayers.

Staci

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