Day 30- August 17th, 2011 ( Dippin'...and Lillie?!)

Noah's Stats
Oxygen Machine: Nasal Canula
Oxygen Level: Mid 20s
Weight:
Day Nurse: Lillie?
Nurse:

I called this morning to find out how Noah was doing, and the person that answered the phone was named Lillie...Lillie? Isn't this the nurse that was banned from working with my son? I am so confused and my heart is beating pretty fast! *sigh*. I will have to update this later to let you know what happened.

Dr. Bernstein called me today and let me know about the results of all the tests that were done yesterday. Pretty much, he did a chest X-ray on Noah, and saw that his right lung was looking a little bit hazy. Because of this, they went ahead and increased his LPM again to 5.0. The reason as to why they went ahead and increased it is because they wanted to give him a little bit more support and to see if the haziness would reduce itself. Noah is working kind of hard breathing because of the haziness in his right lung, so I understand the reason why he is doing what he is doing. Also, the white blood count had increased, which apparently shows sign of possible infection. Yesterday, Nurse Holly said that normal count would be .5, and that Noah's was at 1.1. She said that usually when babies have infections, the number is elevated to like 20, 30, 70, etc. So his being at 1.1 wouldn't be something to worry about too much but that Dr. Bernstein may want to go ahead and start some antibiotics just to rule out infection. When Dr. Bernstein called this morning, he said that the levels were a little bit more elevated, and so he decided to give him some antibiotics. Besides that, Noah is pretty stable. He tolerated the blood transfusion from yesterday, has been tolerating his feeds well, and his oxygen percentage was still about 24%.

Dr. Bernstein said that he would go ahead and do another chest Xray tomorrow morning to see if there is any change. Hoping for more positive news...