April 6, 2015

We got some good news today!  It looks like Campbell doesn’t have a stricture or any kind of obstruction.  They’re going to give the contrast a couple of days to clear out of his system, and they will keep following it out with x-rays, but we don’t expect to find anything.  They did find some reflux, so when they start trying to feed him again, they will probably give him some medicine for that – Pepcid or Prilosec, probably.

Also, one of the urine cultures came back positive for a kind of bacteria.  Basically he has a UTI, but the doctors say that that could be what’s causing his digestion issues.  So they started him on antibiotics and retested him, but we’ll have to wait a few days on the last culture to see if it will grow anything.

So, they won’t feed him for a couple more days at least – the contrast needs to all be out of his system, but hopefully they will start trying to feed him milk again after that.

He’s otherwise doing well – he’s pretty much doubled his birth weight.  He now weighs 1960 grams, and he was 981 at birth.  So he’s over 4 pounds and 5 ounces, now.  He’s huge!  🙂

Here are some cute pictures from today:

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