O.k...I do admit that I can sometimes have little patience for things. (That admission will make T happy). Recently we have been impatient about Evan coming off the O2. If you remember back to previous posts, when he was discharged from the SV Hospital, he was on about .1 liter of O2 (that's almost on room air). They sent him home on .25 liter of O2 just to be sure (since his O2 saturations would drop during feedings and diaper changes). There have been times we have caught him with the cannula totally out of his nose and he hasn't shown any signs of distress.
Last night about 1am, he pulled one side of his cannula off his face (thanks to the new adhesive we used that doesn't keep it on as tight). Prior to him pulling it off, he was making noises through his nose as if the cannula was blocking his nostrils. Since he had the cannula halfway off, I decided to take the whole thing off and see what happened. He was on the apnea monitor, so I had double reassurance that he was still breathing. Well, it has been over 13 hours and the kid is doing fine (no retracting of his rib cage, no straining to breathe), he looks normal as usual. When T gets home from work, we plan on putting his cannula back in since we have that appointment tomorrow.
Tomorrow we have an appointment with Dr. Morgan at the UPH Children's Multi-Specialty Center in Tucson. We're not sure what will happen at the appointment, but we hope he'll get the green light to come off the O2. A lot of what I have read on line says that if an infant with BPD is on O2 during the RSV/cold/flu season, they usually stay on the O2 until the end of the season. That would be very disappointing (especially since Evan doesn't venture out into public places). We'll post more tomorrow after the appointment.
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Chronological age: 3 months 1 weeks and 3 days
Adjusted/developmental age: 4 weeks and 2 days
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Hey sugar...give us a weight/length update...please!!
Love ya's!!!!
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