Avigail started having quite a few apnea events today. The doctors did a CBC as well as a blood culture (will take 48 hours to get the results) just to make sure everything is okay. Her hematocrit (proportion of blood volume that is occupied by red blood cells) levels were at 28. Once these levels go below 32 the doctors like to do a blood transfusion, so she'll be getting one tonight. Hopefully she just needs more blood.
She also got her last dose of indomethacin (the medication to treat the PDA) tonight at 9 p.m. The nurse could still hear a faint murmur. She'll have another echo tomorrow evening which will tell us if the PDA did in fact close or not.
Deacon continues to do well. The nurse did hear a murmur on him tonight. We're hoping that his PDA didn't open back up. They won't do an echo on him unless they feel that it's affecting his breathing. He hasn't been having too many desaturations. The doctors are still talking about extubating him, but nothing has been done yet.
She also got her last dose of indomethacin (the medication to treat the PDA) tonight at 9 p.m. The nurse could still hear a faint murmur. She'll have another echo tomorrow evening which will tell us if the PDA did in fact close or not.
Deacon continues to do well. The nurse did hear a murmur on him tonight. We're hoping that his PDA didn't open back up. They won't do an echo on him unless they feel that it's affecting his breathing. He hasn't been having too many desaturations. The doctors are still talking about extubating him, but nothing has been done yet.
Deacon on the ventilator
Mom watching on as the nurse cares for Deacon
Avi on the ventilator
