Rocky Day

Today started out good with Will sucking on his fingers. My mom was at the hospital early this morning and she called me and said that Will was sucking on his fingers... the nurse moved his hand away from his mouth and he moved it right back. Yummy fingers. :-)

During his 8:00 am hands on assessment the nurse noticed blood in his stool when she changed his diaper. Because of this, they stopped his feedings and ordered an x-ray. His next couple diaper changes had small amounts of blood in his stool so the doctor kept him off his feedings. I am not sure what he was looking for or not looking for in the x-ray but for now, no more breastmilk. One thing they are trying to avoid is NEC or necrotizing enterocolitis, which is an infection of the intestines.

In addition this afternoon Will starting looking pale, so they ordered a blood transfusion and in the morning another round of blood tests. For the majority of the day his oxygen was good until about 5:00 pm when his oxygen dropped lower than I have ever seen it before. By the time we had to leave (cannot visit during shift change) at 6:00 pm his blood transfusion was going but his oxygen was still in the 70's and 80's, even with his O2 set at 100%. The doctor changed his rate on the ventilator from 50 to 55 (this is the breaths per minute the vent is pushing), hoping this will also help him.

Since Will had a rocky evening before we left, we will probably head back to the hospital once the shift change is over.

Will definitely needs your positive thoughts and prayers tonight...