Exciting news! Carson went down on his ventilator to a rate of 2 and PEEP plus of 6. That is a pretty big change in and of itself. However, the doctors are going to trial CPAP from 2 am to 5 am Tuesday morning. By the time most of you read this, it will already be done, but we appreciate all your prayers for the future. They still believe it will take about a week or more to wean all the way to CPAP. I think they are going to try the CPAP route rather than "sprinting" and just increase the time on CPAP if Carson tolerates it. They will get a blood gas Tuesday morning (tomorrow) at 5 am to see how he handles the trial to CPAP. Be praying, it is a big step for Carson. :) We are all really excited for him and just hope it goes well. All in God's time! He also did much better on taking his bottle today and took 50 mL in the morning and 47 mL in the evening from his bottle. He had been having a lot of reflux and getting upset, so this is also progress. His weight is about 9 lbs 4 oz.
Kellen had his appointment with Dr. Yang today. He does have an inguinal hernia and umbilical hernia. They have elected to have them surgically repaired while they are in St. Louis. The inguinal hernia could become an emergency and rather than getting all the back to Dexter and having it become an emergency, they have decided to have it repaired now. This surgery is fairly low risk, but he will have to stay in the hospital one night. Unfortunately, it will be on a different floor than where Carson is so the boys won't get to see each other. We do not know the date yet. The office will be calling Liz and Preston to schedule sometime in the next 2 weeks. We can all be praying it is a smooth and routine procedure for Kellen. He weighed 9 lbs 12 oz and was 21 inches long.
Again, thank you for your amazing support and encouragement for our families. We truly appreciate it!
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