Saturday, August 7, 2010

Kai made a ton of progress this week. He is spending more and more time out of bed. They have stopped a lot of medicine and equipment. He's off the monitors (no more infernal beeping), finished with IV nutrition, his bandages are off and his scar is 'airing out', his doses of painkiller are getting farther apart, and he has lots of energy and plays all the time.

Eating is the big challenge we are working on now. Kai gets enough calories by receiving milk continuously through his feeding tube. In addition to that, he is allowed to drink from a bottle at any time, but hasn't been very hungry. Because he had nothing by mouth for so long, his stomach isn't quite ready for normal sized meals. Today he is shifting from a continuous drip to several 'boluses' of higher volume. The drip will be off for a few hours in between each bolus. Hopefully this will get him back to feeling hungry. We expect he will need the tube for a few more weeks at least, but that is something we can manage at home.







4 comments:

  1. I would love a visit. I am in room 4321. Kai is looking so great. He is lucky to have such an amazing mom.

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  2. He looks great...& that hair is out of control! Keep it up Kai, we're thinking of you!

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  3. the hair! the eyes! he looks like a little surfer dude! It fits with the name!

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  4. Have been getting updates from Mary and your sister gave us this site... I am so happy to hear everything is going great....what beautiful eyes ..love Liz and Michael.

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