Not a good day

Memphis has had a rough few days. After the fundoplication and g-tube surgery he has been understandably grumpy. We would have hoped that this would wear off by now, but as of right now it hasn't. He has obviously been in pain either due to the discomfort of surgery or the new bolus feeds. He has been receiving about 68cc of milk every 3 hours instead of a continuous sloww drip of 25 cc an hour. We feel like this is an issue and have spoke to the nurse practitioner about changing him back to the over time kind of feeding, and they did not oppose that. So he will be going back on continuous feed. The milk seemed to be making him very uncomfortable. Going from never having anything in his tummy to getting a large amount all at one time has not been good on Memphis' poor tummy. He was refusing to be held even. Today, he was so upset that he was turning deep red while crying. Something is wrong, now we just have to determine what it is. The milk may have been causing his stomach to cramp?

The doctors decided to remove his oxygen to determine whether or not he needed to go home on oxygen. After rounds of screaming and crying, he would desat, meaning his blood oxygen level would go down. This ultimately means that oxygen will be a necessity when we get him home.

He has been in pain all day. Memphis' heart rate has been in the 200s rather than his normal 140. Please keep our little man in your thoughts, and hope he recovers from this soon.