Day 7.

Well, today was an up and down day.  Mason called this morning at 5 to see how he was doing, and they told us that they had to re-intubate him.  Apparently, his stomach was really distended.  They can’t continue the medicine for the PDA as long as his stomach is this way, so we had to stop the medicine.  Also, the CPAP pushes a lot of air and can cause air in the stomach, so that’s why they had to re-intubate him.  Fortunately, it wasn’t because he wasn’t breathing well on his own – he was – but until the PDA is resolved, he has to go back on the vent.

Then, later in the morning, we got some good news.  Apparently the partial doses of the PDA medicine have really helped.  His PDA is now very small (though still there).  Still, the doctors are now not very concerned about it – it’s closed enough that they are okay with leaving it as it is for now and focusing on other things.  This was a big relief to us!  Also, his stomach is improving, so hopefully that will mean they can extubate him and put him back on the CPAP soon and start trying him on solid food again.  Fingers crossed.

Here’s a pic of him from today.