Day 22 - 3 weeks
Thursda y, January 21st WHAT DO THE NUMBERS MEAN? Morning : Happy 3 Weeks today! Feed is at his best yet of 13 ML with 26 calories. His oxygen is right at 60% with 15 and 33 settings still. No change here. James gets a new doctor today. We will see what the goals are for the next week. Our targets are to be at 10 on pressure and 25 on amplitude with FIO2 between 30%-40%. Hoping to get there this week. While mom was at the doctors getting tested for what’s causing an allergic reaction and skin irritation, dad got some downtime with James. Evening : Weighed in at 810g. Feed is up to 14 ML now and will increase every 12 hours up to 17 ML since he’s tolerating the advances, James won’t be needing the TPN for now. So they are removing the PICC line tonight. Steroid is going in orally. Morphine will go in orally too. Gas came back positive so the amplitude went down to 31. Echo results show that the PDA was closed. Follo...