Reunited

It feels so good to be back up here with Logan. Oh, and Jake too. ;)

Logan is doing well. He's made a lot of progress while I was away. When I left he was on 10 different fluids and medications and drips, now, he has 2. He is no longer on any heart medication and the fluid he is getting is just supplementing for his electrolytes and calories. He has the NG tube still because he doesn't tolerate a bottle yet. He has had trouble with his respirations, he breathes too fast, especially when he's upset, but it is too hard for him to suck, swallow and breathe all at the same time and he gets frustrated which only makes things worse. So we are sticking to the NG tube until they can figure out how to get his breathing under control.

Some of the reason for his rapid breathing is that part of his upper right lobe of his lung is collapsed. (This isn't new, I must have just forgotten to add it in my other posts) they do what is called a chest BT, where they take a small pocket mask, one you'd use to put over the baby's mouth and nose to create a seal for a bag to push oxygen, and they cup it in their hand and basicially, for lack of a better term, beat his chest and back. This helps to break up any mucus and hopefully open up the alveoli. They have been doing this for about a week now and he is slowly getting better.

Not much has changed since I got here yesterday. He's kind of at a stand still but they took out the IV line that was in his neck as they weren't using it anymore and didn't need it. He looks so much more comfortable. They are talking about taking the arterial line out of his leg and just replacing it with what they call a PICC line. They will use the PICC line to draw blood instead of having to poke him everytime. He also has an IV in his arm incase they need to give him anything, it's mainly just there for precaution. Once he gets the arterial line out of his leg he can wear clothes!! I brought a few outfits for him and I can't wait for him to try them on.

He was upgraded from the small NICU incubator bed to a fancy little crib. He likes it.

His little voice is coarse and raspy when he tries to cry or scream because of the tube he had. Poor buddy. All in all we are very happy with his progress and even though it has slowed down a bit it is okay. We are on Logan time and he can take whatever he needs. He has blown us away with how great he's done thus far and if he wants to take a break so be it.

We will wait.

I had to say goodbye to Jake today as he needed to go home and be with Corbin. It's hard to say goodbye and be all alone, but in a few months we will look back and it will just be a memory.