Greyson was looking much better today. He is still edemic but doing better. All of his numbers came back fine and since he is looking better we are not worrying to much. They are also giving him two doses of Lasic (a dieretic) which should help him get rid of the excess fluid he has built up.
His weight tonight was 2 pounds 15 ounces. While it sounds weird we are hoping he goes down a little or stays the same for tomorrow since some of this weight is definately not real weight but due to the fluid retention. Overal though he is definately putting some meat on his bones. They have increased his feeds yet again so he is now getting 8.5 ml an hour (seems like only yesterday we were hoping we would make it to 4.5 ml an hour (which was full feeds at the time).
Tomorrow will probably be a big day as Greyson will have his first eye dr’s appointment. Since he is a special little guy he will just stay where he is and let the eye dr. come to him. The dr. will be checking the blood vessel development in his eyes. By watching this closely as they develop they are able to intervene if there is a problem to prevent blindness. If they don’t stay on top of it the and something goes wrong, once the problems cause blindness there is nothing they can do. Complete blindness is very rare these days as they know a lot more about treating preemies than they used to.
Other than that it was a pretty normal day. Greyson wasn’t all that active so we pretty much just did his care and left him alone to rest.