Friday, January 18th, 2008

BACK ON THE CONVENTIONAL VENTILATOR!!!

Ian was put back onto the conventional ventilator today. He was breathing over the oscillator and not allowing it to do it's proper "duty". He's already trying to show up the machines! lol. They figure he'll do much better on the reg vent. His blood pressure is still doing good. The nurses are finally wearing gloves and gowns and being more careful. We've had some good nurses the past couple of days, so that's great. They did an ultrasound today of his head. He has a small brain bleed now. We are waiting on the dr's results to find out more about it. He never had a brain bleed prior to now on u/s's and it generally shows up in the first week after birth. But, one effect from Nitric Oxide is that it can cause brain bleeds. But, without using the Nitric Oxide, he wouldn't be with us today. So, we'll take the lil setbacks and deal with them as they come :)