Not another one!

Well, Little Mr. Nicolls has another infection going on. They repeated his bloodwork from last week and it shows further elevated inflammation/infection levels so they had to start him on antibiotics and do more blood & urine cultures to see what type of infection he has. They test mostly to rule out the bad ones like sepsis and meningitis. It could also be that the bacteria they found last week in his urine has actually infected him. So, the nurse had to start an IV on him and he will be on antibiotics for at least 10 days. The poor kid, he just can't seem to catch a break...he has luck like his momma.

He is still up and down on his weight, he is around 4 lbs. 1 oz. and the doctor is still waiting to hear back from Sutter and the surgeon to set a surgery date, but with the new infection he might have to wait a little bit longer than we were hoping. We are all ready for him to be put back together again!

He also got his eyes examined again this morning and is still showing only very mild stage 1 ROP (retinopathy of prematurity - a disorder where the blood vessels in the eye grow abnormally). There are 5 stages of ROP (5 is the worst) and some cases require laser surgery and in some cases it can cause blindness. Luckily for Aiden, his should not effect him.

Yesterday he gave his momma a heart attack and decided to pull his feeding tube up so that some of his milk got into his lungs. He started choking and his O2 saturation went way down, when the RTs and nurse went to check on him they found his tube up but were able to stabilize his O2 again. They took x-rays to make sure it didn't do any damage to his lungs and it looked OK. I hate that feeding tube. Because he is on continuous feedings if he pulls it it can get into lungs and cause alot of damage - he could even die from milk getting into his lungs. We can't wait until it is out or at least until he is on milk every 3 hours when they can check the tube before feeding him. The funny thing is after that little incident he has been requiring less O2 - today he was at 28% and they moved him from 3 liters to 2 liters per minute...go figure! The tube still freaks me out though!

He loves his binky!

Hangin' out on daddy...

The nurses have been more relaxed about the gown and glove rule, so it hasn't been as bad as it was the first day. I only wear gloves when I change his diaper and we wear cloth gowns which are not as bad as the plastic was. We have even snuck in the camera :)