GETTING BIGGER & STRONGER

Trev, continues to grow and he weighs a whopping 3 pnds. 3oz. (1470 grams) We can actually see his body filling out. On saturday morning, I brought my mom with me to see Trev. He just layed there and stared at me while I held his hand and talked to him. It was an amazing experience, I was trying not to cry the entire time. He looked so peaceful even though he has tubes and IV's all over his little body. He feeds are now up to 23ML every 3 hrs. His oxygen PIP setting is now down to 15 from 18 and he is handling it very well. They are finishing up his antibiotics in the next two days. They will be giving Trev a chest x-ray and a Echocardiogram on Monday. The Echocardiogram will be testing the open PDA that he has in his heart which continues to close on its own. The last Echo showed that his PDA was small and closing, which is great success for Trev knowing that it was wide open when he was born. Trev has Pneumonia in his lungs, this is the main reason why it has been so difficult to ex tabate little Trev from his ventialtor. He has so much mucus in his lungs that he struggles to breathe freely on his own, the other difficult part of his situation is that his ventilator tube that is down his throat is causing so many secretions that it is clogging his airway. The NICU is now debating whether to give Trev a steroid to open his airways to give him another shot to ex tabate him. There are possible risks with giving a steroid that causes low blood sugar and increased heart rate. It feels like time is in slow motion and the time that he has been on his ventilator feels like will never come to and end. We are praying that this week they can ex tabate him and we can get over this hurdle.
He is doing so well with his feeds, he grows on average 20-30 grams a day! On friday Jannell and I were in visiting him and he was getting up on his knees and elbows like he was crawling! He is getting stronger and stronger every day. Just need to get past this Pneumonia and ventilator hurdle so he can continue to make forward progress.