Day 5

Isaac began the 3 days of medication last night to close the vessel (PDA). Hopefully this treatment will take care of it and they will not need to repeat it or do surgery. We should know the results of this by tomorrow evening or Thursday. They are not increasing his feeds during the medication because his stomach may become upset. He is only receiving 1 cc every 6 hours currently. He had a head ultrasound this afternoon as a precaution, since babies under 30 weeks may be at risk for some bleeding. The doctor has no reason to be concerned, and will interpret the results later.
It was a nice surprise to walk in this afternoon at 4pm and see the ventilator gone! He "graduated" to C-PAP after 4.5 days on the ventilator. This gives him continuous positive airway pressure, and lets him do most of the breathing on his own. It may be adjusted as necessary, and he might need to go back to the ventilator for a break, but this is good news for now. Unfortunately, the C-PAP looks worse that the ventilator, and there are more tubes/wires and a little hat, so you can't see his face very much.
Once again, we're taking everything one day at a time. We're thankful for the blessings, but we know that there may be challenges to come.