Day 190 - Day 4 of Severe Withdrawal/ Grandpa Don & Dee Visit
Thursday, July 8th, 2021 Update: Increased prune juice from 10ml to 20ml to help with bowel movements. Didn't time to weigh or do measurements on day shift or night shift. We will have to get that tomorrow. Great Nurse on Day Shift and one of our favorite NICU RTs just happend to be floated to the PICU! It was so nice for James to see a familiar face! It was a pretty rough morning and we ended up giving him a glycerin around noon and he had a massive diaper around 2pm. We also gave James a bath and did his trach care using the Nystatin powder. Grandpa Don and Dee came for a visit in the early evening. Mom held whenever she could to comfort James from his withdrawal episodes. In the evening, James ended up having a terrible episode where the pulse ox wasn't reading at all and he turned purple. Unfortunately when the pulse ox is not reading it does not alarm. 🤯 Mom noticed CO2 went up to 100 so she went down the hall to go get someone. His rate also went up to 100. He look li...