Tuesday, November 11, 2008

ultrasound negative

He gained 41 g yesterday and the cranial ultrasound was mostly negative.



We got a beautiful quilt from the Finkelsteins. Thanks!

Upcoming stuff:

Respiration - Trending in the mid 30s now (percent oxygen). This is trending higher than last week. If this persists they'll do a lung x-ray. Current theory is that his lungs need to grow (now that we've eliminated the hematocrit issue)

Feeding - Doing well here on 27 cal/oz. Still staying on his growth contour -- 1st percentile or so. We'd like to see him jump up.

ROP - Opthamology exam in Friday. Answer will be on Friday one of : Stage-N where N goes from 1->4. 4 is worst and requires immediate attention. Or "too premature". The thinking is that we'll get a "too premature" for now. Stage 1 & 2 you do nothing. Stage 4 you go and laser the blood vessels and there is typically some loss of vision. We don't have additional risk factors here.

Brain - Still we have this assymetry but don't know what it means. Need to pressure the doctors more on this one.

1 comment:

Jen said...

Hooray for the learning to suck and hooray for the negative ultrasound!!!! You go, baby!