Stay Puft Marshmallow Baby

He started off pretty well this morning. He had a good x-ray, showing that he's healing well from whatever it was that was ailing him earlier in the week. He finished his antibiotics. He was breathing really well, keeping his numbers where they need to be, the spelling at a minimum.

Then it all went to crap.

Kate called the NICU for an update right before we went in for the 6 o'clock cares, and that's when we got the news. One of the IVs in his foot got screwed up, and the stuff that was supposed to go into his bloodstream instead just leaked into his leg. Now for the weird part: what they were giving him was caustic. When it goes into his blood, it's food. When it goes into his body, it dissolves his skin. Awesome. The net result was that he lost a big chunk of skin on his ankle, and his leg is now blown up like a balloon.



Poor little guy. This isn't a huge terrifying deal, it's just sad and uncomfortable for the little bean.

Adding to our frustration and sadness, they tried to get a new IV into his arm while we were there and they just couldn't do it. His tiny little veins are hard to find, and difficult to get a needle into. They will try again some time tonight because he needs nourishment. They have started feeding him milk again (yay!) but are reintroducing it in very small amounts, so they need to augment it with IV fluids. We know they'll succeed, and we know he'll be fine, it's just that these speed bumps are tough.



Keep fighting little doodle.