Making Progress

Today has been a crazy good day.... Colby has continued to make progress here is the latest and greatest info....

Rounds today yielded the following: Colby has been eating really well, so they increased his feeding from 7 cc's Thursday to 15 cc's yesterday AM to 22 cc's last night, which he has loved every additional cc. These #'s sound pretty big, or they did to me, until the nurses explained that 22 cc's is 3/4 of an ounce.... All this to say that the doctor gave the orders this morning for them to feed him as much as he wanted.... We thought, wow, maybe he will keep up with the 22 cc's. His first all you can eat buffet feeding he ate 2 ounces...... Yes, he ate almost 3 times as much as they had been giving him. Apparently he is going to have his mother's appetite... Just kidding honey.

This was all pretty good news.... Then they took it a little further and told Becca she could start nursing. This could have been the happiest day thus far for mommy. She gets to hold and feed him without a bottle.

Today also added some good news about the seizures. He is still seizure free since Tuesday, so they are going to change his seizure medicine tonight to another med that will make him less drowsy.... We ask if they could put him back on the drowsy medicine when it is time to take him home.... Not sure they really liked that comment.

As of a few minutes ago Colby is line free. They have taken out all of his IV lines and his main lines in his belly button. The only things still attached are his monitor cables for pulse, oxygen levels, and respiration's.... Pretty cool b/c this makes it easier to hold him for those of his parents that are not scared (Becca). This was a pretty big step b/c this means he is not on as many meds and they feel he is at a lower risk to need a lot of meds moving forward. We are really excited about this progress.

Now for a little of today's humor.... I was blessed with my first Colby diaper change this AM. The nurse figured since this was my 2nd child that shouldn't be a problem.... Well as many of you know I can complicate drinking water. I get Colby ready for the new diaper and open the old diaper up to find a wet diaper. I was so excited that there wasn't any poop b/c the pressure was on since I had nurses and doctors to critique my diaper skills... No poop, yeah, forgot to pay attention to the fact that little boys like to pee when they are exposed to room temperature. Oh yes Colby created a shower for me.... All over himself, the blankets, his bed, the floor.... That a boy. The nurse then had to come change everything.
The next moment of humor came when Becca was nursing Colby for the first time. We were both so excited until the nurse went to put him back in the bed to find that he had pooped his pants, and up his back, on Becca's shirt, on Becca's pants, on his blanket, in his bed, and a little on the nurse..... Oh yes quite comical b/c if you notice I was the one thing not on the poop list.....

The last bit of good news just arrived. They have requested that Colby be moved to pod A. We are currently in Pod F (which has a great group of nurses) which is the std NICU where all of the sick babies go. Pod A is still in the NICU but it is for babies that are getting better. Pod A is a step in the direction of home..... Yeah, Colby is pretty excited.

What an awesome day the Lord has blessed us with. We hope to continue to make progress towards getting him released without and surgical procedures.

Please continue to pray for strength and healing.... but we also want to send up some prayers of thanksgiving and praise for all that He has already done for us and Colby this week. As we look around the NICU and see the many other babies around us we realize that we are blessed and Colby is doing pretty good.

Thanks again for all of your support. We hope to have this wild man home sooner rather than later.

Jason