31 days old!
Ryan didn't have a very good day yesterday. He had a lot of oxygen problems throughout the day. When I got there yesterday afternoon I asked if we could kangaroo, but the nurse and RT said they had been fighting to keep his oxygen levels up since about 10:30 that morning. It's the first time we haven't been able to kangaroo because he wasn't stable enough. They said his oxygen saturation had been dropping pretty low, and he needed a lot of help to get the levels back up. While I was sitting at his bedside he had many episodes and most of the them he dropped into the 50s and occasionally into the 40s. Even though he had a rough day yesterday he did have a few minutes during his 3:00 touch time when he was very awake and alert. He really looked cute. With as much sedation he is receiving he really shouldn't have any awake times. I enjoyed seeing him alert. Unfortunately I also saw him awake but very uncomfortable later in the evening. They cultured some of his sputum yesterday morning, and it came back positive for growth. The doctor said it could be another infection but we won't know for a few days. Today they will be testing his blood for infection.
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