Mornin'!

Mornin' y'all!

We came in this morning to see the most wonderful sight: Zach had his eyes open and was wiggling around! They took out his oxygen, unhooked his IV (though the heparin lock is still there) and have increased his feeds all the way up to 25cc/hr :D

Dr. K2 wants to switch him over from continuous feeds to bolus feeds, which just means that instead of having a continuous drip into his belly, they'll do one big feed then not feed for a couple hours, then do another big feed, just as he would get if he were nursing. If he tolerates the first one (or maybe two, not quite sure yet) well, then he wants me to actually nurse him every other feeding!

And now for the possibly slightly upsetting news. Now, they don't know anything yet, so Dr. K2 told us not to get all excited about it (yeah right lol). His blood work this morning came back with his ammonia level being high. He said that his ammonia level could be high due to a procedural error (he said the test itself can be kind of tricky), so he came in and repeated the lab himself, and we're waiting on it to come back. On top of that, his urine from last night had what's called "reducing agents" in it. Basically, he's spilling sugar into his urine, but rather than it being glucose like adults have, it's milk sugar. That means that there is a possibility that he's having trouble digesting the milk :( Now, he did say that he's gotten a lot of false positives on that test lately, so he's repeating it tomorrow. IF it comes back positive tomorrow, he wants to switch Zach to a soy based formula until he can get back a metabolic panel (?) on him, which "could take a while". If that happens, he still wants me to pump every 3 hours like I've been doing to maintain my supply just in case it's not a metabolic disorder, so that I can switch him back to milk at that time. Now, like I said, that's not certain, and it's only if the test comes back positive tomorrow, so there's really no way to know as yet.

I just want to say that would suck. Those who know me know just how much that would suck. That's all I'm going to say about that.

But, he's over here meowing at me so I'm going to go hang out with my fella :)

I'll update later :)