Dear Samuel,
Not much in the way of updates tonight, which is awesome.
Doctors gave you another dose of surfactant to help with your lung development just as a "reserve" to help with any future problems and not because you "needed" it. You are taking some oxygen from the ventilator but only 30% (Room air is 21% OR what you and I breath with normal breaths) AND that is a side effect of the surfactant. So, needless to say, you are still doing awesome.
One thing I watched you do today....and it scared the crap out of me....was when I was in the room alone with you, you were being so active that your Respiratory monitor was going off the chart and then back down to 0 (I saw it go up to 160 bpm and then all the way down to 0). Well, as it turns out, you were SO active that you finagled ($10 word of the day) the monitor off of your arm.
Tomorrow will be a big day for tests though. They will be doing ultrasounds on your head and heart and also an "echo" on your heart (Possible Edit: Your mom and I can't remember exactly). They will also be measuring you and weighing you again to see how we are progressing.
I was able to leave the hospital for a bit tonight and take your big brother Isaac to the Christmas Train in Sparta tonight. I didn't really know what it all entailed, but I guess its a train with lights on it and they do a small concert:
Not much in the way of updates tonight, which is awesome.
Doctors gave you another dose of surfactant to help with your lung development just as a "reserve" to help with any future problems and not because you "needed" it. You are taking some oxygen from the ventilator but only 30% (Room air is 21% OR what you and I breath with normal breaths) AND that is a side effect of the surfactant. So, needless to say, you are still doing awesome.
One thing I watched you do today....and it scared the crap out of me....was when I was in the room alone with you, you were being so active that your Respiratory monitor was going off the chart and then back down to 0 (I saw it go up to 160 bpm and then all the way down to 0). Well, as it turns out, you were SO active that you finagled ($10 word of the day) the monitor off of your arm.
Tomorrow will be a big day for tests though. They will be doing ultrasounds on your head and heart and also an "echo" on your heart (Possible Edit: Your mom and I can't remember exactly). They will also be measuring you and weighing you again to see how we are progressing.
I was able to leave the hospital for a bit tonight and take your big brother Isaac to the Christmas Train in Sparta tonight. I didn't really know what it all entailed, but I guess its a train with lights on it and they do a small concert:
Apparently, Isaac didn't like it too much.....
One last note, in your mom's room there are thermostat gremlins. One minute it's a sauna, the next you can hang meat. She does have a conspiracy theory going about the nurses possibly manipulating the thermostat in some weird psychological experiment. I think it's just hormones. And I end up cold. No one wins.
Sleep tight little man.
Love,
Dad
