What Day Is It?

Second day after surgery. James is still not sure where he wants to hang out regarding his need of O2. As of 8 PM today he needs 85% of O2 to support his breathing. I am not sure about the pressure, but the doctor decides to increase it to see if James will tolerate that. James' blood gas result aren't the best today, but they are a bit better than yesterday. If James isn't doing so hot with the current setting of the jet ventilator, he may goes back using the oscillator. It serves the same purpose of providing O2 for James, but going back to oscillator means James is having a setback. The doctor says the average time for babies to recover from ligation of PDA is about a week. So I am giving James about a week to recover.

Anyways, James' grandparents from Indonesia are here! They landed at Chicago O'hare airport at 9 AM. It took them 2 hours to get through custom. Some miscommunication related to which form to fill out. They finally got to see James today. Pretty exciting!

Things to be thankful today:

- Having my parents around, and that they had a safe travel to the US.

- James is now 810 grams (do I have to convert this into lb and oz? at this time? nah, we'll stay with the International standard. mwahaha).

- Wonderful news from nursing school. The lady at the registrar office has taken care of my summer classes registration. YEAH! And that my classmates asked the higher up people at nursing school if I could walk with them on May graduation. Not sure if this will be granted, but knowing that they think about me means the world for me.

-  Family and friends who have been supporting us. 

It's hard to keep going in these kind of days, but we'll keep swimming. Just like Dori. 

Tomorrow is a new day.  

R&G