Down, down, down

Hi everyone! As you can see from my previous post, I've been getting steriods to help my lungs get better. Well, those steriods seem to be working really well, and really quick. My doctor #1 just told my nurse practitioner #2 to write orders to change my ventilator settings once again. So now I'm resting comfortably in my escape-pod-bed with my ventilator settings at 13 PIP and 6 PEEP. That's pretty low considering that just two days ago I was sitting at 19 PIP and 8 PEEP. The doctors are pretty impressed with how well I'm doing, but they kind of figured the steriods would work this way.

Now, don't get too excited just yet....I still have my apnic spells every once in a while, (mommy says almost once a shift), and occassionally my heart rate goes way down because I'm not breathing...but, all in all, I'm doing better.

I'm still eating lots and lots of mommy juice. I can have up to 82 CCs in a 12 hour period. Most of the nurses feed me every three hours, but I would like it better if I could eat every two or 2.5 hours. I usually start throwing a fit around 2.5 hours and when the nurses check my tummy it's always empty:)

Do you know that I haven't had a bath in a week???? Yep, life has been good to me! I personally think I smell great, but I keep hearing mommy whisper to the nurses something about a bath tonight. It's too bad I'm not still inside of her, I would kick her if I was. I really don't need any baths...I promise I don't stink!

Mommy and daddy are staying with me at the hospital tonight. Mommy has to be on-call for work starting tomorrow afternoon at 4:30pm so she won't get to spend as much time with me for the next week. Because of that, she's going to make daddy stay with me all the time until she's off on-call. She told him yesterday that she wanted to spend the night with me, tonight, so she wouldn't miss me as much tomorrow. He said that was fine yesterday, and now today he's decided he will stay here also, because he really misses me too. I think daddy would miss mommy if he wasn't here too. Mommy and daddy keep joking with each other...they say that I am #1 in both of their lives, which means they can only be #2 to each other. They walk around all day calling each other #2, it's kind of funny. I keep telling them that I don't mind sharing my #1 spot with both of them....they are my mommy and daddy so they are both #1 in my book!!!

My Grandma Domo and Grandpa Bob are going to visit all my real Aunties and Uncles. They are going to Texas and will see Auntie Maggie and Uncle Rob, Auntie Rachel, and Auntie Sue and Uncle Reid...they won't see Auntie Sue and Uncle Reid's baby girl, because she's still in Auntie Sue's tummy. Grandma Domo is worried that my mommy will need her, but mommy says "go and have a good time!" Mommy is just excited because she knows that when Grandma Domo and Grandpa Bob come back I will look huge to them!!!! Ten whole days means I could gain 10 whole ozs. while they are gone. Can you believe it?????? I could possibly weigh over 3 lbs. by the time their vacation is done:)

My nurse Denise is bringing in extra special blankets for me tomorrow. She says that I'm too cute for some of the hospital blankets and since I'm a little man I need to have matching blankets....no mis-matched stuff for me! Mommy also tod her that I've gotten some blankets and receiving blankets as gifts from all my friends and family. Denise said mommy could start bringing them in and we could bring in a little set of plastic drawers to store them in....that way the hospital won't borrow them and forget to give them back.

Anyway, mommy is going to bring in my blankets and some of the clothes that might "almost fit me when I'm 3 lbs". She says that right now all the Preemie clothes she's been saving from gifts and the stores are still too big, but soon I will be able to wear them!!

Oh yeah, daddy came up with another funny name tonight. This time it's not for me. He was talking with my Nurse Practitioner #2 (cuz she's the second one I met) and she was excited to know that daddy wanted to call her the "NICU Jedi". I guess that means that the doctors are either Yoda, or that Council group that always meets....I don't really know because I haven't seen the movie. I should really ask my Uncle Rob because he knows every thing about Star Wars. I think daddy may be sleep deprived when he comes up with all these funny names and saying, but I have to admit...daddy makes mommy and my day brighter when he's around!!!!