An attempt at perspective

Well I forgot the camera today so no new pics.  So we thought we would take a moment and look at a picture from when he was born,and one more recently to try to compare.  You can decide how well I did.  Today was a pretty uneventful day.  Greyson’s blood gasses continue to be OK and they have started weening his pressure down a little.  They also increased his feeding back up to a rate of 9 ml an hour.  We talked to the Dr. about this and voiced our concerns that we might be rushing this again and he is in agreement with us (today’s Dr. was the one who reduced Greyson’s volume a couple days ago).  Unfortunately Greyson has 6 Dr’s and they don’t always agree on what to do.  Today’s Dr. is going to write in the notes a bit more directly and see if he can get the other Dr’s to hang with the plan for a little bit longer.  Greyson was down an ounce today to 3 lbs 4 ounces and continues to look really good. 

While doing his care I noticed he had some goobers on his eyelids.  Stacy told me I should clean them off, so I decided to try it.  Up until now I have refrained from messing with the eye goobers as the eyes are pretty delicate.  Anyway he had his eyes wide open and was looking all around.  Stacy told me to just get the wipe close to his eye and he would close it.  Boy was she wrong!  I would get it really close to his eye and he would just look all around.  I kept telling him to close his eyes and he just wouldn’t.  Sometimes when I would get it really close he would suddenly look at it and get a little startled, yet never closed his eyes at all.  Finally Stacy instructed me to touch the top of his eye lid and that got him to close his eyes just long enough to get it cleaned off.