Day 29 - 1

Sorry for the lack of updates.

Yesterday was pretty upsetting. After I got to the hospital from dropping Luke off at school, the nurse told me that they were putting him back on the formula. They said his drainage increased quite a bit overnight while on the breast milk. I was so upset. I had expected to come in and them to say they would be taking his chest tube out. I expected we would be able to go home soon. I expected I would get to nurse him again any day now. But no. We've went backward once again.

Apparently his chest x-ray yesterday also showed that some fluid was building up on the side without the tube. Not quite enough yet to have to put the tube back in, but they will have to monitor it to make sure.

This mornings x-ray showed that the fluid was about the same as yesterday on the side without the chest tube, so they were still okay with not putting it back in. Hopefully we won't have to at all. But we'll see what the morning brings. His output during the day today was quite a bit higher than it had been before we started that breast milk.

I just hope that it stops once again on it's own. I do not want to end up having to do the pleurodesis. I thought that scare was behind us, but now we may be facing that again.