How does it get to be so late so fast!?
Today was a great day for us. Nothing that much out of the ordinary happened to report on, but for some reason everything just felt good. Greyson continues to grow and is now 830 grams, or 1 pound 13 ounces. He is taking all of his nutrition through his feeding tube now and will probably have his PIC line removed some time tomorrow.
His blood gas numbers looked really good today and while we were there he was not requiring much supplemental oxygen and was much more stable with his oxygen levels than he has been.
At 4PM when we first got there we discovered he had made a major poop in his diaper. Stacy and I were working together to get it all cleaned up and he got to squirming around so much pretty soon he had poop all over his leg (up to his hip!) on his pulse oximator, on his bedding, a bit on his hand. It was really something. All this and keep in mind I pulled the full diaper with most of its contents out BEFORE any of this occured. He was really moving all around.
After his care we went to dinner and while I was watching him before his 8PM care time he was getting very upset. He started crying and was moving his head back and forth so I called one of the nurses over to reposition him. I also mentioned that he had a LOT of slober. She suctioned out his mouth and then as I watched him for a few more minutes I noticed he was licking the tape that holds his vent tube in place. He was also pulling on it with his little hand a bit. So when it came time to do his care I talked to his nurse and we had the RT come over and look at it. Well he had slobbered so much and worked it that one side was coming off and had to be changed. HE DID NOT LIKE THIS ONE BIT!! Man was he crying. Now that sounds bad, and we did feel bad for him, but this also meant that we got to see his full face! That’s the pic I’m sending with this update. I actually caught him when he wasn’t crying. It’s a little blury but I think you’ll enjoy it as much as me.
Well that’s all for now, I really got to get to bed. After being at a seminar on Thursday and Friday nights as well as all day today until we left to see Greyson, I’m beat!