Tuesday 7/16/2013

Ava is not doing great today. I got a call early this morning telling me that about 0530 that her wretching after her feeds included some emesis (food from her belly). Her oxygen needs have gone way up. They are suspecting an infection. Her abdomen is distended, confirmed by x-ray. Chest X-ray gives suspicion of aspiration pneumonia, but it is hard to differentiate from the chronic lung disease that occurred with the last big infection. She is being put back on the CPAP machine and has been moved back to the NICU. ...crud, just got a call from Shaun, who is at the hospital. They just intubated her (put a tube down her throat to breathe for her). We really wanted to avoid that because of her fragile esophagus. They drew blood and urine cultures to check for sepsis but apparently about 50% of the time the cultures don't grow anything even when there is sepsis. please pray for her. This will be a rough week.  thanks