07.02.08
Logan’s Bad Day
Logan had another bad day today. 
His oxygen requirements kept going up throughout the day and the doctors had to keep increasing his vent settings. Kim said that by the afternoon he was at 100% oxygen and they even had to adjust the vent hertz for a little bit… something that they’ve never had to do before.
Dr. Neal, the neonatologist that’s on-duty, talked to us tonight about starting Logan on a much stronger steroid that will hopefully give him a boost so that he can get past this plateau that his lungs seem to be stuck at. Logan will be on a 10 day course of the medicine starting tonight. Dr. Neal says that it’ll take about 3 days before we notice any significant gains. We’re all crossing our fingers.
After shift change, Aunty Allison, his nurse tonight, changed all of Logan’s lines and he seemed to perk up a bit. His oxygen saturation actually went into the 90s for a bit. She did her assessment of him and he handled that pretty well too. After she finished her assessment, she started the first dose of his steroids.
When we left for the night, Logan was actually high enough on his oxygen saturation that Allison was able to wean him down a little. Hopefully, he has a better night…
Sheeesh… Only 32 days old and he’s already taking “Vitamin S”… Hope this doesn’t become a habit…