As I was speaking with the nurse today, another topic was brought up, withdrawals. Memphis has been on narcotics now ever since he was born. Within two days after his birth he was put on fentanyl. A few days after that, while he was ECMO he was put on Ativan. He has been taking scheduled dose, drips and as needed doses of three different pain killers/narcotics for seven weeks now. They are starting to wean him now. All of this means that he will start having withdrawals. This is a typical response and what they treat it with is methadone. This is a replacement that they will replace the other drug, and wean him off of. She said the reason for this is because they can wean it faster than they can wean the others. Then we spoke of feeding, and issues related to that. All it did was remind me of how long we truly have left in here. Hopefully all of these will go quickly