All right. We are told that Isaac sounds better today and that if he "tolerates" bottle feeding for the next 24-ish hours, we can go home tomorrow. His "crackles" in his lungs are sounding better, he's had solids a few times, and they are willing to let us go home and re-evaluate in a few weeks if he handles the bottles OK. I have high hopes because I feel like the return of the crackles the other day didn't happen because of the bottle feeding. Hopefully I am right.
Oh, and yesterday we got moved to "intermediate care" on our floor, which doesn't seem to have to do with our care but more with someone who needed more acute care being put in our old spot. So now we are in a room with four patients, no closet, no space and the most uncomfortable bed-chair ever. Woo.
Anyway, if he goes home tomorrow, he will be eating solids and then his formula thickened with cereal, be on reflux meds and a course of steroid and antibiotics. We can handle that. Crawling and being at home will do wonders for him, I think.
Glad to see there's some decent progress in the right direction.
Posted by: Marci Phillips | February 08, 2009 at 12:50 PM
I seriously hope that you get to go home soon!
Posted by: Tammy | February 08, 2009 at 09:24 PM