Thursday, February 21, 2008

Life in the NICU


Brighton is doing a little better today! They were able to lower his oxygen amounts for most of the day yesterday which is great. Yesterday they put a feeding tube in him so he's getting some nutrition, but he's really hungry. When I hold him he's a little upset for a while because I think he "smells" me. Luckily he calms down so we can cuddle for a while. The best news we've had so far is that the respiratory therapist came in and took him off the high powered oxygen about an hour ago and now he's just on normal oxygen. If he can stay stabilized on that, then he'll get out of the NICU in a few hours and onto the normal floor! YEAH! We're thinking he's on the up hill side of this nasty virus now!

He's a tropper. We just love this guy so much!

3 comments:

Jesi said...

Our thoughts and Prayers are with you!! Sounds Like things are looking better!! Keep us updated with your posts.

Jesi

Let me know if you need help with anything. I would love to help.

Crystal said...

Sooo scary Turia! I'm so happy to hear that he's doing well.

Jon and Emily said...

Poor litte guy! He look like he was just born. FYI, I think you meant "trooper" not "tropper" (I'm a professional blog editer :))