My Dad Changed My BM today

My parents came up to see me today around 5pm. As soon as they got here, my daddy got to change my diaper and I had a surprise for him =) From there, my evening took a roller coaster ride. For whatever reason, I didn't handle the diaper change too well. I think I got over stimulated. After that, the nurse wanted to take out my c-pap and what to change me to a trial of the nasal canula. I started the trial at decent numbers. Then the nurse wanted my mom to hold me, which she did (see the video) . . . . but my numbers quickly dropped. My oxygen dropped to about 75%. My parents asked the nurse to put me back to get my numbers to even out. After about what seemed to be 3 - 5 minutes, I had a preemie apnea/brady episode. My mommy and daddy got real scared. Something just didn't seem right. After about a total of 10 minutes, with me back in my bed, I never got better. My daddy joked that something must be wrong with the equipment, and not me, since I've been doing so good. Finally, the nurse went to a respiratory therapist to check my nasal canula setup. Guess what . . . not only was one setting wrong . . . 4 things were wrong! 3 things were plugged in incorrectly and she didn't have my "high flow" attachment in . . . . no wonder I didn't do well tonight. If it wasn't for my daddy asking to check the equipment . . . they might have blamed me! It did take a lot out of me trying to breathe on something that wasn't working so they did have to put the c-pap back in. It took some recovery time, but I did finally calm down.

To help me settle me down, my daddy did put a family portrait in my isolette. That's the picture above.

Finally, around 9pm, my mommy called my nurse, Christine, and she found out that I'm much better now. I'm still on the c-pap, but my stats look good and I'm back on 21% oxygen (room air). They also keep increasing my feedings. For this 12 hours, I'm up to 2.4ml.

Ta Ta for now!!!!