Extubation tomorrow! - November 10, 2013

Owen turned 2 months old today.  He celebrated by getting his 2 month shots!

His lungs have looked better for the past two days.  He has done well on the CPAP ventilator trials.  He has mostly been resting and growing over the past two days.

Owen is taking a trip to the operating room tomorrow.  They are going to take him there so they can take pictures of his throat.  They are checking to see if some parts of his throat are fully developed yet.  The doctors need to know this because they are going to try and extubate him tomorrow!  These pictures will help us determine the best position for Owen when he is trying to breath on CPAP and off of the ventilator.

He got an eye exam today.  The very nice doctor made a special trip up to the hospital to give Owen his exam a day early.  They didn't want him to have an eye exam on the same day they tried to extubate him.  He still sees some minor and normal for his age problems.  There were a couple of hemorrhages in his right eye that weren't there last week.  This seems to correlate with the clotting problems he had in his throat.  Hopefully they are or have figured out the clotting problems.

He is on day 2 or 3 of another 6 day course of steroids.

Praying for:

• Stay off of the ventilator tomorrow!
• Bones to grow stronger
• Lungs to function better
• Infection to stay away
• Heart problems to heal
• No long term effects from the steroids
• Stopping the Bronchospasms
• Getting stronger
• Eyes to grow properly
• Blood clotting issues to be solved completely

Do horizontal stripes make me look fat?

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2 months old today!