Fun Stuff

I just talked to Andrew's nurse and she said he's looking wonderful this morning. They just got back the results of a blood gas test and she has to go find the doctor....his results were fabulous and she needs to know what to wean. Apparently his CO2 was in the 40's...if you remember, 50-70 is acceptable, over 70 is bad, and anything in the 50's means he should be weaned. Apparently he wants to move forward.

The doctor also told the nurse to get a weight from him, to which she replied, "You have got to be kidding." Andrew has been so fussy with just a little touching/movement (suctioning, changing diapers, moving sensors), that she was really worried about having to lift him entirely off his bed, move him to a scale, and then move him back when she was done. However, she said he handled it beautifully and didn't cause any problems. Actually, the one difficulty was that he went to the bathroom right before they weighed him....and right after they took his diaper off.

For the weigh-in, they held all his tubes up so that they wouldn't lay on the scale and influence the weight at all. There's still no way to tell how much additional fluid he has (quite a bit), but his weight came out to 4.55 kilograms, which equates to just over 10 pounds. It's only been a little over three weeks, so he's progressing nicely.