07.02.08
Posted in Logan at 11:20 pm by lance
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…
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07.01.08
Posted in Logan at 11:48 pm by kimi
Okay . . . everybody has been subjected to an embarrassing photo by their parents. Logan is no different! Aunty Pam was his nurse the other day . . . she’s hilarious! Since he was resting happily on his tummy, Aunty Pam decided not to rile him up by flipping him onto his back just to change his diaper . . . instead, she chose to put his diaper on backwards while he laid on his tummy. This gave us the first good look at his itty bitty butt! We couldn’t resist . . . we HAD to record the moment with a photo! I’m sure he’ll thank us for this later! 
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Posted in Logan at 11:41 pm by kimi
I found this super cute puppy at Makana Mother & Baby the other day and thought it would be the perfect friend for Logan (even though he already has 3 real dogs waiting for him at home)! Marcella, one of Logan’s nurses, told us about a NSCU mom who had taken a picture of her preemie next to a stuffed animal to show how small he was. We thought that was a great idea!
Since Logan was born in the year of the rat, Lance wanted to take a picture of him next to a fake rat . . . needless to say, mommy quickly vetoed that idea! Â We compromised & decided to look for a Ratatouille stuffed animal at the Disney Store, since Remy (the main character in the movie) is a rat. Before ever making it to the Disney Store, however, I laid eyes on this cutie!
Logan’s new furry friend is 15″ long . . . Logan was 11 3/4″ long when he was born. I think Kassie (Logan’s favorite nurse) said that he’s now 13″ long, but I’ll need to verify that . . . after soo many hours in the NSCU, my brain is just a little fried! 
We were worried about whether Logan would tolerate being photographed with his new friend . . . he’s not exactly fond of people messing around in his isolette! Since Logan loves Aunty Kassie & always behaves for her, we waited until she was on duty. On the night we took this photo, he was resting comfortably on his tummy (his favorite position) & sucking happily on his pacifier . . . the conditions couldn’t have been better! Luckily, Logan decided to cooperate & posed nicely for daddy!
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