Day 147 - Trach Change Wednesday

Wednesday, May 26th, 2021

Overall James had a good day and good night.

Mom and Dad did a successful trach change together. Previous to the trach change James had a nice bath. He also decided he wanted to have a bowel movement in the bathtub. So we needed to empty out the tub and try again.

James is sporting a new onesie, just one of the many awesome piece of clothing handed down by Baby Alexander. Baby Xander was born just one week after James, but just to kind of give you an idea Xander was born at 20 ¾ inches, James is only 19 inches right now at 5 months. Baby James was only 1.5lb the day his friend was born! It was so generous of the Czentye family to give us all of his adorable outfits!

James had an ultrasound of his scrotum to make sure that he did not have an incarcerated hernia. The tech unfortunately did not get an RN or RT and started the ultrasound while no one was in the room (Mom had just went downstairs to eat). James ended up having a BPD episode setting off alarms while the tech continued. Thank goodness an RT stopped in to calm James down. It's crazy to think that anyone doing an x-ray or ultrasound would start touching a baby in the NICU without consulting the nurse first. Anyways the ultrasound needed to be done a second time because the first one wasn't correct. This time her trainer came to do the ultrasound. Overall the results do not show an incarceration.

James had two massive dirty diapers around 6:30pm! Maybe the key is to have 2 ultrasounds of the scrotum...



P.S. You can email James your love and support as often as you’d like. Mom and Dad read these emails to James as they come in. We all love them! JamesWestonAbramowitz@gmail.com



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