Monday, January 30, 2012

A Full Dance Card

Landon had a busy day today! It started with a really nice feed followed by a lot of vomit. Yeah, not fun at 8am- for him or me (Allison). He is fine- he just got upset by the "bubble gum" flavored motrin I had to give him and worked himself into a frenzy. Why with all the medical advancements they can't make medicine taste like breastmilk for infants is beyond me. Obviously my 4 month old has no reason to prefer bubble gum flavor because he has no idea what bubble gum is. Anyway- all that aside- he got mad and threw up his meal and the med. Then we had to take him down for an xray which is also not fun. Hard table, cold room, restraining him with his arms above his head- he's not a fan. Then we got back upstairs and had to give him 5 meds (including the motrin he disposed of).

He had an echo, which luckily he slept through most of, and then he got his central line IV removed- great end result but not a fun process. All this was before 2pm and he finally conked out and took a 2 hour nap.

Overall he is still doing well and it still projected to go home tomorrow. His feeds took a dip today because of all the craziness and his blood pressure is still high (which he's on meds for) and his heart rate is still low. As far as I can tell they are still not worried about the low heart rate but it seems to still come up in rounds every day. We haven't heard how the echo came back yet but if that looks good then I'm sure the low heart rate won't be an issue for discharge.

2 comments:

  1. That is hard day for such a young person. Praying for him. Grandpa

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  2. Reading about all of this brings back such memories, when we went through it with our baby boy. I hope the recovery continues so well, and you'll all get to go home soon.
    -shaina (part of MLH)

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