Nov 8,9,10...

Poor baby Dylan cought another infection over the past few days. He had a bacterial infection in his trachea which turned into a blood infection. The second blood culture grew a certain form of ecoli. This is pretty serious in preemies. They had him originally on a broad spectrum antibiotic but when the second culture grew the ecoli the antibiotics he was on arn't specific for that. So yesterday they were able to change the medicines around to some that will specifically help treat that infection. Today he is doing better. He is peeing great whereas the other day he wasn't peeing much. His CRP and White blood cell count have started to slowly come down which verifies that the antibiotics are starting to work. He is pretty sick and uncomfortable so they have gave him a mild sedative to keep him calm and restful. From a resperatory standpoint he is doing good. They have not been able to come down on his settings because he is stick but they have not had to go up either which is even better. He is at 35-45% oxygen the past two days. Today they have started to feed him again, 4 cc's every 8 hours. They will start slow again to keep things moving along. So he is really fighting thru this, he is such a strong little boy. His weight is up to 4 pounds and 4 ounces with about 10-12 ounces of that being fluid. They want him to pee out a good amount of the fluid the other amount he will grow into. He looks good though, we just want him to get better and he will!! He is fighting and he has many people praying for him and watching him and strengthning him from heaven above! We love you little man and you will get better soon so mommy and daddy can hold you~