Sun. Oct. 28th

Luke did fine through the night last night and had no fever. His lab work continues to show no signs of infection and his x-rays look better today. They were able to take him off the ventilator this morning and moved him to the high flow nasal cannula. He has been resting pretty comfortably. It is wonderful seeing him off the ventilator and looking better today. They did start some small feeds up today to see how his tummy will do and so far he's doing fine.
The only thing that they have been able to determine why this happened is due to the fluid build up on his lungs from not having the diuretic. He can't go home on diuretics, plus they are not good for him to stay on, so moving forward his doctors will work on a different plan on trying to move him off of them, right now though, it's clear he needs them.
On another note, Jeremy's mom went back to Sacramento today. She's the type of mom-in-law who is very handy around the house. She practically renovated our house. She also became Bryan's favorite playmate, but most importantly she helped create some consistency in our house for the last 10 days, something we haven't had in a long time, plus I enjoyed the late evening talks while I pumped. We all are missing her (especially me) and can't wait for her return.
They will take Luke's statistics tonight, so stay tuned.
Melinda