6 wks 1 day old

Little Lo was feeling a bit better yesterday. His fever broke Monday night and didn't return. He showed good respiratory signs so they made the switch back from cpap to nasal cannulas. Definitely a good step, plus it's way more comfortable for him. As the respitoray therapist said, Lalo worked his hardest to defeat the purpose anyways. The machine pushes oxygen into your nose, so he would just leave his mouth open to release some of the pressure.

After much back and forth, they have decided not to do a "cleaning" of his Broviac iv line. After some frustration with the whole thing, I finally emailed our surgeon to get the answer right from the source. He stopped by yesterday and made the decision not to do this method. It is a relatively new method and is typically only done when they don't think they are effectively fighting the infection. Because they feel like he is getting better, it is not necessary right now. They also were able to do the spinal tap yesterday, despite Lalo's best efforts to stop them. He threw such a fit for the doctors that he snoozed for hours immediately after. The results indicate that the infection did not spread to his spinal fluid, which is very good.

Big plan for today is to start feeds again! Let's hope that it goes a little smoother this time. They are also going to work on weaning some of his narcotics. Both of these are major projects for our road to getting out of this place!

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