Day 43

This is Jaymie....I am on a computer that works, so I'm able to blog for myself! :) First of all, thank you for the comments y'all have posted over the last few days. Reading them is so encouraging..especially at times like this. We have a little more information today. Through the day yesterday, Kanyon's breathing has leveled out better and they're even going down on different vent settings to let him do as much breathing on his own as he can. He was on room air most of the day yesterday and maintained his saturation great! So..that's good. As they checked the cultures yesterday, they did find that he has a urinary tract infection. Kind of weird since he's a boy, but they said yesterday that these little babies can do all kinds of weird stuff like that. They did do a renal (kidney) sonogram this morning to check and make sure there is nothing going on in there that could have caused this infection. I haven't heard from the Dr. yet about that. Hopefully there is nothing in there that caused it and we just got a bug and we're on our way to fixing it. They started him on antibiotics as soon as he got to the hospital just in case so it was a good thing he was already on them. By tonight, they will know a more definite "bug" that caused this and narrow down his medicines to treat exactly what he has. All of the other cultures as of last night were showing no growth, so that is good. I don't think they consider them negative until the full 48 hours, but they feel pretty sure this is the only infection. We are thankful especially that his CSF fluid (in his brain) and his blood have no growth..those would obviously be bad places for infection. So..lots of negatives is a good thing in this case! They will not talk surgery until this infection is cleared up, so all of that is kind of on hold. We're expecting them to fix his PDA thing in his heart first, then figure out the reservoir thing...but..all of that is on hold until we can get this infection covered. Hopefully that will be quick and as easy as possible. Keep the prayers going..that sweet little boy has been through too much. He's been poked, prodded, stuck, and bothered way too much in the last few days. But, we feel very good about where we are and how thorough they are being. They will probably start feeds again soon, so pray that goes well. This has made me nervous this whole time. His digestive system is so sensitive I just hope that he goes back on his feeds as well as he was doing before they stopped them. Please continue to keep all of him in your prayers. We love y'all and are very thankful for the support you all give us.