Today has been a pretty good day for little Memphis. His rate has been turned down a little bit. They have weaned some of his medicine again. We are hoping that it doesn't affect him much. He is still off of dialysis. His lab numbers were a little off, but mostly on the low side. Dialysis is still not going to be restarted, but it isn't completely out of the picture. He has been producing urine more and more every day. Last night he had about 500 cc out. Already this morning he has had close to 62, and he has a full diaper now. Everything seems to be going in the right direction. They have spread out the time between labs and gas reports, they have removed the pre-arterial saturation monitor, and they have taken away our dedicated nurse. Now the nurse that is in charge of Memphis, is also looking after another baby too. These are all good things. He is getting better and in less need.

Michelle has been able to hold him every day now, and he seems to like it. I got to hold him for the first time this morning!

After consulting with the nurse practitioner, she said that a good estimate of when he would be able to come home would be the first of the year. We were hoping more of around November, but they still want to see a lot of progress from him. This progress will be slow. They need him to keep milk down, and then eat from a bottle. They also have to wean his pain medicines all the way down. His ventilator also has to be removed. All of these things will take a while.