DAY THIRTY-THREE

I had a great night and the day started off well, I got a bath this morning! The nurses are still dealing with the secretions from my lungs, but today was better then yesterday. I am still on 12cc of milk, but the doctor requested that a caloric supplement be added to my milk. Milk has 20 calories and the doctor wants me to have 22 calories with each feeding, to continue my weight gain. I moved to a bigger snuggie, but I still do not keep my feet in which frustrates my nurses, but I am not being bad, I promise, because the Occupational Therapist has started exercising my left foot and says that the snuggie is limiting my range of motion in that foot. Hey, I guess that is another big life lesson, you cannot please all the people all the time. When Mom came to see me at 5:00 p.m., they had to increase my ventilator settings because of ongoing secretions. When they took my blood this evening, they figured out that I was not getting rid of the carbon dioxide in my body as well as I had yesterday and that is more than likely due to the build up of secretions in my lungs that I am trying to get rid of. This is not a huge step back but as you know Mom and Dad are really wanting me to be weaned of the ventilator so they can hold me.