Still at UNC...

Well it's Tuesday morning and Ethan had to have his Lasix med (a diuretic) upped to twice a day instead of once a day. This is because his doctors think there might be a little fluid around the lungs, which is causing his oxygen saturation to be lower than when he was in the PICU last week. We'll see how he does with the extra dose of Lasix, and if that's what does the trick, then maybe we'll get out of here by the end of the week.

Dan learned how to change the NG tube this morning, and he also changed his first poopy diaper over the weekend, so we're slowly going down the checklist of things we need to do in order to get out of here! Also, Ethan's in the process of having his newborn hearing test that all babies have to have before being discharged from the hospital. The hearing test is now done and the tech said he passed the hearing test for both ears!

Thanks for your prayers for his feeding. He's been very consistent with his feeds, mostly being able to take the entire 65cc bottle at each feeding. He only had one feeding over night where he was too sleepy to take the whole bottle and had to have about 20 cc's given by NG tube. Hopefully, by the time we go home he won't need the NG tube either.

Prayer Request for the Day:
Please continue to pray that Ethan can get weaned off his oxygen (he's only at .2mL/hr which is barely anything at all, but he's been at that same place for the past 24 hours now), that's the one thing holding us back from going home right now. The nurse just said that he's sound asleep and his oxygen sats just dipped even more so she's turning him up to .3ml/hr. This is not the right direction for getting out of here, but at least he's in good hands here. We'd rather be here a little longer and get his sats right, then to go home and have him turn blue from lack of oxygen and have to rush back over here.