May 15, 2013

Well, the lasts couple of days have been rather eventful. Our "NICU" roller coaster began on Friday. This is the term for babies like me in the first fewonths of life. Generally we have about a week "honeymoon" where everything looks great and then we start a roller coaster ride of really good days and really not so good days. One doctor though said it nicely...she said "hold your heart and get ready for the ride. He will get home just not on a nice long ride through the French countryside."

So I had two days of bad blood gases, the way they tell if my lungs and general health are progressing, so they have me all kind of drugs because they think what happened based on a cortisol number is that my adrenal gland is not fully developed so my stress response is not very good. Thus, I got really stressed out from e dry thing going on and so they gave me lots of drugs to help me chill out. By the time mom got to the hospital on Mother's Day. ,I had a great day. The next two days were touch and go but I am gaining weight, pooping more regularly, and generally think one step forward and two steps back. They say that eventually I will take 2 forward and 1 back and then just 2 forward. But for now just hold your heart and try to be patient with the ride.