Good news!!
The PDA meds seem to have worked. The PDA is small enough now to not have to treat it at this point. NO SURGERY! This doesn't mean that it can't come back and we are in the clear, but it has worked enough to make the Dr. happy for now.
Max is still having his respiratory issues so they started him on a couple of asthma inhalers. They will try these for a while and if he doesn't respond they will give him steroids through his IV. This is all due to immature lungs.
He did get another blood transfusion and this perked him up a bit and helped with his low blood pressure. Since he is a micro preemie, he doesn't replenish is red blood cells as well as you or I would. The transfusions are very common and work well for him. After a blood transfusion they gave him a diuretic to help him pass some of the fluid he is retaining. This is only done after a transfusion so hopefully this will work for him. A lot of the weight he has gained is due to fluid retention.
He is currently 920 grams, 2 pounds!!! He is a chubby little guy. His oxygen levels have been in the 40% range pretty regularly and he is at 55 BPM. The have raised his feeding to 3 mils every 3 hours.
They did do a full blood work up yesterday and thought they may have to give antibiotics again due to his white blood cell count being a bit "shifted". The Dr. decided that the count wasn't shifted enough to call for them to have to give the antibiotics so that is great.
He opened his eyes for us agian. Too cute!
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