Two Weeks!!

Here is the update from Thursday Morning...

Caleb is packing on the pounds. He now weighs 3 lbs 11 oz. He is still on the conventional ventilator but he struggles with it quite a bit. The first day he did pretty well but then after that they had to turn up the oxygen. It ranges between 40 and 60%. His right lung doesn't work as well as his left lung so they rotate him every few hours to try to get the right lung to improve. Every six hours the therapist gives him a breathing treatment where she rubs a vibrating pad across his chest and back to try to loosen up the gunk in his lungs. Then she hooks up a breathing bag to his tube and squeezes the bag. After that she drops some saline solution into the tube, pumps some more and then runs a suction tube down his tube to try to suck the gunk out of his lungs. They've also been giving him some steroids to help with the inflammation. Since his right lung is weak they've turned up the pressure and some of the other settings to make sure his lungs don't collapse. This is basically what the doctors said could happen when they moved him to the conventional ventilator. So it wasn't completely unexpected but it's just not very fun to feel like he's regressing.

I love seeing him all wrapped up. They rotate him on his tummy and the his sides to help his lungs try to clear and to keep his head from flattening on the sides.
Oh how I love him. (from Leah!)

Keep going Mr. Caleb. We love you and pray for you all the time!
xoxo
Auntie Angie