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Day 136 - Juju visit & G-tube out again

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Saturday, May 15th, 2021 We had a great RN & RT who were very familiar with James and his needs! He had a really good day! James had a milk bath. Unfortunately too much of mom's breast milk was thawed out. It needs to be used within 24 hours after being frozen. James loved the bath and had very soft skin afterwards. We were able to wean him into the twenties on his FiO2. Changes: Only weighing James on Mondays and Thursdays We had one of our favorite night shift nurses again!  Around 3:30am, James had his G-tube dislodged for the the second time in 2 weeks. They are saying the balloon deflated probably due to stomach acid and James bearing down. He did have a previous episode at 1:30am. There was a hole in the balloon. Radiology was able to confirm placement of the new G-tube at bedside. Mom reached out to her Facebook Trach moms to see if this has happened to anyone else. She received a ton of responses from people saying that this has happened to them as well. So I guess this...