FRIDAY...

Ben had such a great morning. He slept through the night so peacefully and restfully. After a quick morning of suctioning, he fell back to sleep for a long time. This afternoon Ben became really copious with his secretions and had both the nurse and tech hopping. His oxygen need increased up to 50%, he became febrile, needed to be bagged quite a few times and finally after about 4 hours has finally calmed down a bit. They took an x-ray which shows some collapsed airways. We're hoping with aggressive bagging and suctioning, we'll be able to open them up. They took some more blood to check his blood gas levels but so far they are good. His heart rate continues to be really high - hanging at 150 beats a minute. I'm hoping that as the evening goes on, he'll be able to settle down even more. His g-tube feeds were started today and then stopped after he got worse. He had a lot of residual in his stomach which means that his little body wasn't digesting the milk very well. This is probably due to the fact that he is still not feeling well. They switched him over to his NJ tube instead. Still no date to leave as of yet - especially with all the excitement that he caused today. Thanks for your love and support, we have felt SO blessed knowing that so many people are pulling for us to get back to NH!