9/9/2011. 5060 grams. Memphis lost 585 grams last night! This was not expected since he received some extra blood products last night, but it happened. This is good since he will probably gain some weight when he gets the circuit changed out. He still needs to lose down to about 3700 grams(his birth weight), but this a leap in the right direction.

The surgeon came back up to look at his incision which was still bleeding. The x-ray had shown that his arterial cannula had backed out probably due to him moving around so much. Since the site was already somewhat open, the surgeon was able to push the cannula back to where it should have been. His numbers seem to have benefited from this.

Due to the varying of his coagulation factors (platelets, plasma, and cryoprecipitate) and the blood thinners, his skin has developed an issue called Petechiae. It's nothing more than popping of small capillaries in his skin. We are told that it is nothing to worry about, but it looks bad. His skin is very purple around his face, and his little chest is very red and speckled.

The nurse also tacked a roll of gauze inside his hand. He was reaching up and trying to pull the tubes out of his throat. Hopefully this will stop him from doing that.