Today is much like yesterday, we are still playing the dialysis waiting game. Memphis lost 45 grams last night. Because of the dialysis affecting Memphis' blood pressure yesterday, they had decided to take fluids for 2 hours at a time then let him have a 4 hour break. Today, Memphis seems to be tolerating everything better so they have gone back to taking 10ccs every hour. This is the equivalent of taking two teaspoons of fluid from him every hour.
The ECMO pump has been weaned down to .23 which is about as low as the nurses will go until he gets off of dialysis and is peeing on his own again. Memphis' gas (co2) numbers are the same as yesterday .67 and his %O2 is at 54.4. These two numbers also need to be at .2 eventually if we are to get off of ECMO.
All of Memphis' other numbers such as saturation numbers, blood pressure, heart rate, and breaths are looking great!
Yesterday, we stared playing classical music for Memphis to listen to when he is awake. We think he likes this. It' so hard to tell. But with his daddy being a musician and mommy a dancer we figure their has to be a love for music in him somewhere.
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