Tuesday, November 20, 2001

(1,126 grams or 2 lbs. 7.7 oz.)

I do have a PDA, and they are going to treat it with indocin. The treatments will start in a couple of days. It looks like I may have a bit of an infection, and they'd like to clear that up first with some antibiotics. Other than those two things, I'm doing great. My blood pressure was a bit low, but I'm calm, my oxygen needs and my heart rate have both returned to more normal levels. I did have one scary moment, my respitory monitors started to beep and I was turned gray. The Respitory Therapist was right there bagged (manually ventilated) me while they sucked out some secretions that had blocked my ventilator tube. It was a scary couple of seconds, but Mom rocked!! She didn't panic, and handled the whole situation splendidly! I was (and am) just fine.

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