Dear Samuel,
I get the feeling you are going to like roller coasters.
Yesterday, you had us frustrated, emotional, nervous, excited.......and on and on. Today was, as the song goes, "Easy like Sunday morning" (Okay, kind of cheesy, I know).
You are really impressing the doctors with how well you are tolerating the CPAP. It's been 36 hours since you had the tube taken out and so far you are showing no signs of having to re-intubate. When we were there tonight, your vent settings were at 46% O2 and 55 RR (Respiration Rate). The respiration rate is a bit high, but you need to start doing some of this breathing stuff on your own buddy.
They are going to weigh you again tonight or tomorrow morning, but at your last weigh in you were at 1 pound 11.9 ounces. Your mom wants you to be at 1 pound 13 ounces (Just remember, she gets what she wants....so I suggest being at that number).
One noteworthy thing is that you are being started on an additional antibiotic because your vent tube tested positive for an infection. Now, it's not definitive if you have another infection for sure but the antibiotics you are on would not fight this new possible infection (Hope you followed all of that).
Blood sugar has been sort of settling down a bit (Upper 100's) and your insulin has been taken down to about a drop an hour.
So, if today was the "drop" on the roller coaster I hope we don't have a "climb" tomorrow. Let's stay on the fun part for a while.......
Love,
Mom and Dad
I get the feeling you are going to like roller coasters.
You are really impressing the doctors with how well you are tolerating the CPAP. It's been 36 hours since you had the tube taken out and so far you are showing no signs of having to re-intubate. When we were there tonight, your vent settings were at 46% O2 and 55 RR (Respiration Rate). The respiration rate is a bit high, but you need to start doing some of this breathing stuff on your own buddy.
They are going to weigh you again tonight or tomorrow morning, but at your last weigh in you were at 1 pound 11.9 ounces. Your mom wants you to be at 1 pound 13 ounces (Just remember, she gets what she wants....so I suggest being at that number).
One noteworthy thing is that you are being started on an additional antibiotic because your vent tube tested positive for an infection. Now, it's not definitive if you have another infection for sure but the antibiotics you are on would not fight this new possible infection (Hope you followed all of that).
Blood sugar has been sort of settling down a bit (Upper 100's) and your insulin has been taken down to about a drop an hour.
So, if today was the "drop" on the roller coaster I hope we don't have a "climb" tomorrow. Let's stay on the fun part for a while.......
Love,
Mom and Dad
