The past week has held a lot of ups and downs. Just a week ago Henry had the surgery to close the hole in his heart, that went great. Then on Thursday they took him off the ventilator and put him on oxygen assistance, CPAP. That was great for 24 hours and then he got really tired so they needed to add some more help and give him a few breaths from the ventilator. Then on Sunday we called to check in on him and we found out there was another large air bubble in his right lung and it was threatening to collapse the lung so they had to put another chest tube in. On Monday, the bubble had not gone away so they removed the chest tube and did it again to place it better....ugh POOR kid!!!
Today was much better. His xray this afternoon showed the air bubble was mostly gone and they will take the chest tube out tomorrow!! The Dr said his lungs sounded really good. They also started feeding him. It's a small amount and they said its going to take a while for his gut and intestines to figure out what they are supposed to do since he is an "old" baby who has not been really fed much yet his body is basically clueless on what to do with it. As it is, he is too young to actually take a bottle (he doesn't know how to suck, swallow and breath at the same time) so there is a tube that is in his stomach which feeds him.
I can not wait for him to come home and be done with all this. He needs a break, but we know everything they are doing is making him healthy so he can come home.
Yesterday he was 33 weeks gestation...so maybe we only have another 7 weeks. Maybe.
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You and your family have been on such a roller coaster the last few weeks. I hope Henry gets some much needed rest and starts growing like a little trooper. He is alwasy in my prayers.
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