Peter is one strong boy. He had a great night again. Only one incident of throwing up his formula, but the nurse said it was because his feeding tube was moving up and down while he was wiggling around. I called the PICU at 8:30am and the day time doctor answered his phone. They were doing a round on him as I called. He had no drainage from his chest tube yesterday or last night. So they are challenging Peter with the higher concentration enfaport (think I said a different formula name yesterday, but this is the real name) they want to see how he does on this from a bottle. Then after a week on this special formula he can possibly try some breast milk.
His doctor told me they are taking out his chest tube today, I was shocked to hear this but he's been draining nothing for 2 days. The last big change Peter had last night was being taken off the nasal oxygen. He is now breathing room air and doing very well, it's such a joy to see his beautiful face with one less tube. We have a feeling if everything goes well it's only a matter of time until he comes home.
Paul and I think he might just hang out in the PICU until he goes home. His nurse said the PICU and the pediatric wing are all so full they have waiting lists for both of them, the PICU has about 5 patients waiting to get to the pediatric wing and they are holding PICU patients in emergency rooms. Peter just needs to pass his bottle feeding tests and continue down the road to recovery
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