Monday 8-20-12

Wow...I can't believe the end of August is drawing near...where does the time go?  Colby had a good day today and we got lots of information today:

Morning Check-In
-Had to get more platelets this morning.  This infection is just eating up his platelets.
-Oxygen is holding steady at 45%
-Amplitude was raised to 15
-They had taken Colby off the dopamine but had put him on hydrocotisone for his blood pressure.

Afternoon Visit
-SATs looking good
-Oxygen was staying between 45% - 48%
-Amplitude still at 15
-Mean pressure was still at 11.5
-Had just had a diaper change and had a good amount of tee-tee!

Dr. Bonner Check-In
Dr. Bonner called Jason after assessing Colby and gave him this update:
-His ultrasound from Friday showed that the left ventricle swelling was on the high side of normal so they feel this is subsiding and that his head felt good PRAISE!!!
-The ultrasound also showed suggestions of the cyst that they saw 2 ultrasounds ago but they won't know for certain until they can do an MRI which will be awhile before they can do  PRAYER--that this is really just a shadow and nothing more
-His blood culture came back and he has coagulus-negative staphylococci (this is a bacteria that is on your skin and his got into his blood stream) PRAYER--that the antibiotic that they have him on works and he is able to get rid of this infection
-They were going to start trying to ween Colby off the hydrocortisone

Nighttime Check-In
-Colby is having a good night! PRAISE!!!
-SATs are holding steady
-Platelet count was 38,000 so he had to get some more platelets (they upped it to 15cc/kilo instead of 10cc/kilo so hopefully that will help as well)
-He was going to have another count done at 10pm tonight but he would probably need some more tonight as well
-They have done another blood culture and if the results come back positive they will have to remove his PICC line (which will mean more sticks for my baby when they need to draw blood, etc.)  PRAYER--that this test comes back negative and he is able to keep his PICC line in
-They replaced his feeding tube this evening (even though he isn't eating right now) and there isn't any more green stuff coming from him tummy!  (Green stuff = bile...yucky!) PRAISE!!!