More Seattle...

So we found out that the Dr.'s in Great Falls wants us to wait in Seattle until they are certain Ethan's hernia is stable and after his next eye test. Premature babies have eye tests weekly when they reach a certain age. Ethan had his first one last week and it was fine. If they find something in the eye test he would have to have surgery on them and Great Falls doesn't do the surgery there. Normally they send their patients to Kalispell or Billings, MT for this but since we are in Seattle where of course they do the surgery they figure we might as well make sure that is fine before flying back only to fly again. The eye test is tomorrow so hopefully he will have a good test result. If he does have to have eye surgery though I kind of hope that it shows up now so he can have it done in Seattle vs waiting and then having to fly (again) to Billings to have it done.

They also wanted to make sure that he was able to handle being on the cpap. The reason for this is that the cpap pushes air in his body and they want to make sure it doesn't push the bowel down again. They tried putting him on the cpap on Sunday and it didn't work so yesterday they put him on a trial on the ventilator at a lower setting to make sure he could handle the cpap and he did great. So today they put him on the cpap. The nurse asked if I wanted to hold him before they did it... of course I said yes. While I was holding him I was watching his numbers on the screen and his heart rate was much lower than it is usually is. It was like this before I held him as well. His heart rate was between 100-120 when normally it has been 120-140. I pointed this out to the Dr. before they put him on cpap and they still went ahead with the cpap. He has been on the cpap for 2 hours now and doing good. It makes me a little nervous to fly back on the cpap because he was on the sipap before we left MT (which gave him more assistance in breathing.)

They put some clothes on him today... he has been naked since we got to Seattle! They also put his feeding tube in his nose instead of his mouth now. They did it only because the tube kept bowing out of his mouth so they tried the nose and it did the same thing. I also picked him up a cute little stuffed animal because he doesn't have anything to look at... silly me I didn't pack a stuffed animal with my 1 hour notice we were leaving!