10:15pm: Everything is status quo with Reid tonight. Still on 60% oxygen and fairly stable. He did resume breast milk feedings today (2cc every hour). Not much else to report tonight, so I am going to keep this post fairly short. I have a 7:25am flight tomorrow morning for DC and will be back on Thursday night. It is a quick trip and hopefully the snow that is supposed to arrive in Atlanta on Thursday won't keep me from coming back on time. Anyway, a couple of pictures from this afternoon's visit (mentally block out the tubes and tape and forget that his has crappy lungs and he is a perfect baby boy):



5:00pm: Reid took a trip in an isolette to radiology today to get his NJ tube replaced. Xray confirmed that the old one was in his stomach. Talking to the nurse, she said in radiology, they put him under a real-time xray so they can see the placement of the tube as the do it. It sounds like a two or three man job as they have to rotate the tube, rotate and flip Reid just to snake it down into his bowels. He did well and slept through the entire process.

We got to the hospital around 1:30 today and his room has been fairly quiet. His oxygen remains at 60, but the respiratory therapist is hopeful to break into 50s sometime today.

About 2:30, Reid started waking up and Kristen was able to hold him. He was quite a happy camper and was just looking all around. What he didn't know was he was in for another treat as a physical therapist came to visit. Kristen had put a bug in the nurse's ear yesterday ad she thought he looked a little stiff... so I guess you get what you ask for.

The therapist came in and watched him for about 15 minutes just to see how he handled stress, how he moved, and how he handled being touched. After she was comfortable with him, she worked on moving his hips, legs, arms, fingers and shoulders. She spent a good 30-45 minutes on him and you could tell that it did it's job as he was moving more on his own and making some movements that he normally doesn't do. She will probably visit a couple times a week to help him out, but she taught us how to stretch Reid on a daily basis. He handled all of the touching very well and kept his sats in the lower 90s the entire time. And just when the therapist was wrapping up, Reid zonked out. A little massage goes a long way.

I talked to his nurse today that has 30+ years experience and was questioning her about Reid's MRSA. I was a little confused as to why that colony could cause a huge step backwards and if this was something that we were going to be fighting for a long time to come. She is not convinced that it was the MRSA that caused us the issue four days back. She was under the impression that it had more to deal with the e. Coli and the enterbacter. I am starting to wonder if this was something that was introduced again when he was reintubated for his PDA ligation surgery???


10:15am: No major updates this morning... Reid had a stable night and he is at 60% oxygen. I believe he is to have a trip "downstairs" to radiology to have his nasojejunal tube replaced. Looking at the xrays, it appears that the tube may no longer be in his small bowel and most likely sitting at the bottom of his stomach. Once they can get it in place, they will resume feedings.