3rd Infection

Friday and Saturday the 29th and 30th the blood culture from two days ago is showing signs of a 3rd infection. Bacterial ecoli in the intestines. This makes Dylan at risk for an inflammatory "disease" called NEC. This is very dangerous for preemie babies. This is where part of the bowl dies and it has to be surgically removed. So they started treating Dylan for NEC by giving him a medication. He still had not gone potty much the later part of the 12 hours on Saturday. This was concerning, was his kidney function worsening? We didn't know. Dylan had been able to start feedings again though and was handling them well. They increased the amount from 1.5-3 and he was digesting it all. Dylan started to put on fluid weight because of the kidney function not releasing it out of his body. They have given him blood transfusion to help with the oxygen levels, they have given him platlats to help clot his blood and his blood pressure is very veriable. This is starting to get scarey again. Saturday night we were though comfortable enough to get some sleep at home. So far Dylans nights are better than his days and he is still fighting on, he is such a strong little boy. He continues to let the nurses know what he likes and doesn't like and when he wants to be flipped he will de-stat. He has those nurses wrapped around his finger at such a young age!!