Day 117 - Shorter but More Frequent
Monday, April 26th, 2021 Changes today: After a 1am weigh in last night at 3840 grams, losing an ounce. He ended up gaining tonight at 3940 grams (8lb 10oz). He measured at 17.5 inches long. We have made some vent setting changes by decreasing the Rate from 30 to 25. The reason for this is because his blood gases recently were good. Also we may not have mentioned but a couple of days ago we switched James from morphine to methadone. In a few days, we will begin weaning him off. We did trach care at 1am along with weighing him and changing his clothes. This morning around 9am we needed to draw blood for a CBC panel and for the exome sequencing test. They tried drawing it from an artery in his left arm and that was horrible to watch. Eventually they got someone who was really good at IVs to come in and take it from his head. We knew eventually they'd use those veins, so that is a bandaid on his head. We did the trach tie change right after his 4:30pm episode. Charting of BPD episodes...