One of the neonatologists came today and chat with us. Maybe I never mentioned this before, but James has been receiving Pulmicort. It is a medication to treat lungs disease. Since James was born super early he needs help to develop those air sacs. He was pretty sick for the first couple of weeks being in NICU. Some babies do great after receiving Pulmicort, but it seems like James is taking his time to get well. The team really2 wants him to be off of the ventilator. Since the Pulmicort hasn't done much for James, they want to start a 7 day course of Decadron (corticosteroid). The decadron is to relieve inflammation in James' lungs and will probably relieve any other inflammation in his body. They did a check with James' trachea to see if he has any infection or not. If he does, then they will have to give James antibodies before starting the Decadron. Why? The doctor mentioned that one of the side effects of Decadron is that it suppresses the immune system. James won't do well without the antibodies if he has an infection while on Decadron. Other side effect that the doctor mentioned is James may not gain weight during the treatment. So... he'll be stunted for that 7 days. Not a biggie. We're looking at a better future for James - respiratory system wise. Our plan is really to not disturb James so much while he is on Decadron.
Other than that.... I choose not to do kangaroo with James today. Not sure if it would be too much for him.. although I wonder if he actually wanted to do that. He kept going up and down with his saturation... maybe he wanted the kangaroo.... Well... after the Decadron kicks in.. hopefully we'll be able to do it again :) Stay strong James!
Please continue to pray with us for James:
- Infection free
- Tolerates the treatment
- Say good bye to the jet ventilator.
thank you :)
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