Carter Likes to lay on his back now

Well I just spoke with his nurse and he hasn't had one of his "episodes" since I left this afternoon around 12:30. She thinks with his new tube that he just prefers to lay on his back for breathing ease. YAY CARTER! Keep it up buddy!

About last night..

Carter is trying to give mommy and daddy heart attacks at a very early age. We got a call from the resident on duty at 1 am this morning. Carter's breathing tube had some how come loose and it caused him to have low heart rates/breathing. They had to re-intabate him (don't know how to spell that sorry it means put a new tube in). They had to give him breathes and some chest compressions b/c his heartrate got so low (baby CPR). This morning he is still dropping his heartrate, although not as low. Sometimes it comes back up on his own sometimes they have to give him extra breaths to bring him back up. The Dr said he is "very fragile" today and we are hoping he snaps out of it soon.

Belly full of gas = no milk for Carter

:( Carter is off the feeds again. His belly appears to be just full of gas so they are trying a couple of things to clean that out (his belly is still the same size it was when he was retaining all that fluid) Hopefully in a few days he'll start back on milk again. They changed his respirator settings to a higher setting. This has kept him from "riding the vent" which is what was causing his spells. Other than that he is looking good.

Can the kid catch a break?

Carter did really well today. He was having "spells" with his respirator where he would decide to stop breathing over it so his respitory rate would go down along with his heart rate. This in turn would scare the bageezus out of his mommy. He recovers usually on his own, but still, it's no fun to watch. Carter is off his blood pressure meds and is doing well on his own. He had his feedings increased earlier today but tonight they decided to stop his feeds again. His belly is still swolen to the same size it was when he was retaining all the fluid. They didn't say they saw something in his belly xray but they said they were stopping and would repeat the xray in the morning. I guess they know what they are doing so whatever. Now we can't help but wonder if there is something wrong with his belly now. Poor guy, he can't catch a break here lately.

Sorry about all the spelling errors the last few days. This thing is refusing to spellcheck for me and I refuse to spellcheck myself :)

Happy Monday

Carter had a very happy Monday today. He got his catheter removed and his giant tube down in his belly. He now has a regular feeding tube and a good old fashioned diaper. He was very active today, opening his eyes and flailing about. It was good to see him acting more like himself. He lost weight again today,which is good, b/c that means he is loosing his water weight. He looks soooooo good. You can tell he's lost a lot of the water weight already. He is still holding some fluid in his middle so hopefully that will be gone asap.

Guess who peed?

:) CARTER DID! He is producing all kinds of urine. I never imagined in my life I'd be so excited about some pee! They increased his dose of blood pressure medicine and appartantly that is what it took to get that little man a flowing. His oxygen levels are down (which is good) He is still puffy but I think he's starting to feel better. You can tell he still feels sick. He sleeps more than normal when we're there and when he does open his eyes he just stares instead of wiggling and looking around. Hopefully in a few days he will be back to his old self.

Well we have drops...

...of urine! He has some urine in his catheter FINALLY. It isn't much, but it's a start. He needs to keep it up. He is still very puffy. They have diagnosed his mystery illness as pneumonia. They aren't changing his treatment b/c they've already been treating him for everything under the sun. It breaks our hearts to see him so sick.

Keep praying that Carter will pee and pull out of his funk.