Two days with little to write about (and that's a good thing). The little guy is back under the bililights...I think he's just working on a tan! They saw his bilirubin counts go up again and thought it was best to get him back under the lights. The yellow-ness looks to me to be mostly in his legs.
They removed the two UVC and UAC lines going into his umbilical cord. I think they both could only stay in for about a week anyway (due to potential clotting). Now he has a line going into his foot instead that is doing the job of those two lines (called a PIC line...Percutaneous Intravenous Catheter). So now he's not looking so wired-up. The PIC line can be used for several kinds of injections and infusions so he doesn't have to be poked so many times.
Today his nurse said they took an abdominal x-ray since she had felt a hardness in his groin/leg area. It turned out to be a minor thing...the PIC line they put in his foot needed to be adjusted since it was causing the edema in that area. It's a common thing from what they tell me.
His blood platelet counts have been steady, so they haven't had to infuse him. He's also tolerating breast milk down his feeding tube. He gets that every three hours. They are increasing the amounts every day to see how much he can tolerate. They plan on feeding him 30ml every day, which is a pretty good amount.
He is still on the oscillating respirator and his CO2 level is looking good (they fluctuate in between the 40s and 50s). I think earlier I posted his CO2 levels should be in the teens, but that number is wrong...the nurse told me his CO2 monitor was probably not on tight and had room air slipping under it, causing the reading to be so low.
That's it for this weekend...we'll be driving up tomorrow after work.
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UMC Charges (7/22): $6,832.35
UMC Charges (7/23): $7,956.65
Running Total: $117,072.04
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