Today was a 'pink day', otherwise known as a non-phototherapy day, I wasn't under the glare of the blue lights. Normally the blue light over my incubator lights up the whole hot room... but today I was just like all of the other special babies... I looked all pink and normal - with no goggles on! Mummy says that she's going to keep my goggles so that when I'm bigger and understand what she's talking about, she'll show me the size of the goggles and I'll gasp in amazement at how small I am now compared to how I'll be. She'll probably stick them in her diary along with my first elastoplast - the things that Mother's do, eh!Some good news is that I've come down on my ventilation. Not by a million miles, but where the machine was doing 60 breaths for me, it's now doing 55. The good thing is that I can still do breaths on my own and at one time the reading was 68! That's a whole 13 breaths on my own... although I'm not sure over what period of time, I'll have to investigate and find out just how good the 13 breaths is!
Last night they reduced my feeding for a a while as they wanted me to concentrate my energies on my lungs not on my digestion. But now that I've no bugs I'm more able to cope with various things, so it's up to 3ml per hour again. Hopefully I'll be gaining weight healthily soon. They didn't weigh me yesterday - but I'm a nice 820g's now... knocking on the door of 2lbs again...Who said wobbles... what are they... it's been ages since I've done one of those... ages in my world anyway... My oxygen saturation has gone up and down today - but I've been good and have done a lot more regulating myself. Typically each breath that they give me contains a percentage of oxygen... recently they've been twiddling with the amount and it's been up to 60% at times - it's now a far better 40% give or take. Once this is stabilised a little more they'll reduce the pressure of the ventilation - this will be a day to remember as it will be the right road to recovery and coming off of the ventilation - fingers crossed!
Peek-a-boo Oscar, what a wonderful picture of you with your eyes open. I hope your oxygen levells remain good and the ventilator is taken away when you are breathing yourself, well done on 13 breaths you are such a good boy, fingers crossed always. Rest plenty and have a good nights sleep so you will be strong tomorrow. I love you sweetheart.
ReplyDeleteWell done Oscar, we all have our finger crossed for you in this house hold...at that is a lot of fingers!
ReplyDeleteTake care little one
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