So when we came in today and looked at Greyson he looked like he had been in a boxing match. He had a bit of a bloody nose. When I asked him about it all he said was, “yeah but wait till you see the other guy!”. OK they don’t actually let them box in the NICU but Greyson did have a bit of a bloody nose. Not sure why or what happened but he probably squirmed to much while laying on his stomach and irritated his nose. This coupled with the fact that he has air blowing up his nose probably led to the bleeding. We are not sure but the RT checked him out and said he looked OK once all the boogers were cleaned out.
Now last night I mentioned how Greyson seemed to be breathing hard after we put him back in his crib. Well turns out he was as was evidenced by his poor midnight blood gas. His c02 was 72, not good. So at noon today he had another gas to see how he was doing. It came back with a c02 of 73. So the Dr. ordered a gas every 6 hours and wrote that if his c02 rose above 75 he would need to be put back on the ventilator. Well I am VERY happy to report that at 6pm his c02 was down to 63, well below the troublesome 70 numbers. So he is still on the cpap but did not spend any time today on the nasal canula. We’ll see what his midnight numbers are.
Greyson also received a supository since he hadn’t pooped in a day. He’ll get a few of these over the next day or so. I held him for about 3 hours and then decided we should put him back and check his diaper as he was making a lot of noise and squirming a lot. He had gone a litlte but not much so we began to change his diaper. Well while doing this he went alot in three seperate episodes. When the nurse was giving report to the oncoming nurse she said, “and when he was born he weighed 700 grams, and I think he just pooped 700 grams!”. I don’t know I thought it was funny.
I’m sure you all realize this, but I was amazed when I realized that Greyson is almost 12 weeks old now, yet shouldn’t be born for almost 5 more weeks! How crazy is that?
Poor little Greyson, I am sure is nose is just all dried out from the cpap, it happens all the time to our patients that are on cpaps. They put them on a humidifier that is attatched to cpap, but with Greysons little lungs so fragile I suppose they don’t want any moisture getting down in them. You didn’t mention that Greyson is now over 5 lbs.
Once again God is showing us just how big he is. He is taking care of Greyson and knows what is best for him! Simply awesome! Derek does not wear his mask every night either because of how much it dries out his nose. So he can sympathize with the little guy. Little guy? Maybe I shouldnt say that if he is now over 5 lbs as mom suggests. He might actually almost fit in the new clothes we sent him! So wonderful to see him growing and doing so well…..and for almost 2 weeks…..being VENT FREE!!!!!!