Thursday, April 21, 2011

Check His Blood Work Please! Day 68!

3 lbs 10 ozs

Goodafternoon. It was nice to see the sun shining today. Our room today was freezing, had to crank the heat up in there so that Holly and I didn't have to sit around in blankets the entire time. No changes for Calen today, there was a plan to decrease his liter flow for his oxygen but he is still battling some desaturations and heart rate drops so they didn't mess with it. When we came in today, his heart rate was higher than usual, running around 200 when he is normally around 170. He was requiring 24% o2 from the last setting of 22%. I asked when his last blood test was to check his blood count and it was Monday. The last time he did this he needed a trasfusion, so my thinking is that we might be heading that direction again, I would just like to catch it early instead of waiting till Monday that way he does not end back up on CPAP. The desaturations though are not that bad, he never really falls below 88% so it isn't really terrible.


Picture of Mommy and Calen. I was just playing around, I find myself getting bored at times in the room. 


He has some crusties on his mouth that we soon removed when we gave him a swaddle bath. The swaddle bath was pretty nice today for most of the time they let us alone in the room to take care of him, which was great just because it gives us a sense of confidence that we know what we are doing and are ready to care for him. 


After his bath. He now has a clean mouth and a new outfit on. I messaged his back and legs and arms today,he really enjoyed it. He all together loves getting those swaddle baths. 


We saw this hanging in his room today. Not sure who created it, they think that it was one of the night nurses, 
but really how cute is that. 

Been nice catching you all up, back to work at the house for the rest of the evening. 

  

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