Saturday, January 19, 2013

PICU second morning

Micaiah is doing about the same. He was on .5L of oxygen most of the day yesterday. They stopped his IV fluids sometime around mid-day I think. He nursed for about 5-10 minutes every three hours for most of the day. Last night before shift change we decided to try every two hours since he was still nursing so little & not getting IV fluids. We did that the first two feedings of the night & he did worse-acted more tired like it was wearing him out. So we decided to go back to every three. Two hours after I fed him then he acted restless & hungry. I guess he wanted to establish that he is in charge right now. His temp also went up over the night to 100.7 (the highest I've seen him have). He acted really restless & fussy for about an hour. His nurse gave him some Tylenol & he settled down after that. He just nursed for a total of 15 min (wow!) & then I realized I had reset my alarm at 630 so he had been 4 hours between feedings. Mother of the Year...thanks! Oh well. Our pediatrician stopped in to see him & the resident (Dr Bali) who was here when he was admitted is back today. He also has the same nurse (Kaycee) as yesterday. Both Kaycee & Misty (night) have said he's doing much better than most RSV babies in the PICU so that's a plus! I have been amazingly pleased with everyone we've come in contact with here. It's definitely more like our Vanderbilt NICU experience. We are still in a room in the PICU because the regular rooms are full. Wesley is at home with Hannah Kate & will hopefully be coming down later. She is feeling better & was actually running around the halls here last night & playing. So far she's cool with being left with Nana a lot & hopefully that will continue until we are home. We did FaceTime last night so she could see Micaiah. I asked her who she saw & her first response was "Mauuurice!" (Micaiah's monkey paci)
Thanks to our church family for praying. Please pray that Micaiah would continue to improve & be able to go home soon (I do not think that will be today) & that Hannah Kate will continue to so well as we are running back & forth. Here are some pictures from yesterday.























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