So that was the good news. The not so good news is that his x-ray this morning was not good. He already has a lot of fluid on his lungs again. They are now thinking he has some sort of infection. They took some mucus from his lungs to test, and also blood to test for a blood infection. His mucus looked a bit yellow, so that's not a good sign. We won't have the results of the cultures until at least tomorrow.
I was so hoping today would finally be a good day. Every day has just been one setback after another. Saying I am scared would be quite an understatement.
Here he is today, my sweet baby boy. He has to have his hands tied up so that he doesn't pull his tubes out.
Oh my goodness, he looks so tiny. I'm so sorry things are turning out to be more complicated than they should have been. But it sounds like his doctors are right on top of things. Here's hoping that little Nicholas starts to turn things around and feel better! ~hugs~
ReplyDeleteThinking of Nicholas, and praying he'll start recovering and kicking the infection quickly, if that's what it is. :(
ReplyDeleteThinking of your family and praying for Nicholas. Please let me know if there's anything that I can do for you.
ReplyDeleteJamie~ Thanks for the putting up the blog, I've been thinking about the family alot. Being a nurse myself and working in the NICU, if anything does not ever seem right to you about Nicholas ask questions lots of them and it's ok for you to look him over, take the blankets off and look at the tubes and make sure that they look the same as your last visit. Any strange noise that you hear ask about it. I know your involved with his care but by adding this in will show the nurses that this mom is not playing around! Glad you spoke to the charge nurse as this nurse seems like she needs some more one on one training. Tierre
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