Merry Christmas!
Aiden gave us yet another scare yesterday. He has developed an infection of some sort, they are still waiting on some test results to see what type of infection he has. The results take 3 days to come back, hopefully it is nothing serious and in the meantime he is on 3 different antibiotics to cover all the bases. He started needing more support to breathe and it tipped the doctors off that something might be up - although I had been thinking that for several days. He has been acting completely normal but it wasn't normal for his oxygen saturation levels to go down as often as they were. When we left the hospital yesterday he was being given 80% oxygen, he hasn't needed that much help since he was first born. They ran some tests on his blood and lung secretions and they both came back positive for infection.
He gave us a good Christmas though, when we saw him today his oxygen saturation level was much higher, his Co2 much lower and they were only giving him 35% oxygen so he seems to be responding well to the antibiotics - we are still holding our breath though! It made me feel better to know that our favorite night nurse (aside from Heather, of course!) was there last night and tonight to care for him. When we got there today we found that she had stuffed his stocking that I made for him with some perfect gifts for a baby in the NICU - a preemie pacifier and some VAP guard (swabs that prevent infections from the ventilator) and candy for mom & dad. It was so sweet since I forgot to stuff his stocking before we left yesterday.
A good yawn after mom & dad said goodnight and read him a story
We brought down Aiden some Christmas gifts today and opened them for him and told him what he got, read him a Christmas book and stayed for a few hours. Right before we left he opened up his eyes for and visited with us for a little while. Before we left we wished him a Merry Christmas and told him what a good, strong little boy he is and to keep up the good work and of course that mommy & daddy love him VERY much :)
Merry Christmas to everyone!
- Holly
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