Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Journal Entry

I forgot to post a journal entry the past couple of days. I apologize. The story now continues...

Be sure to read the recent posts. I've managed to write quite a few updates over the last 2 days

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JOURNAL
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Posted Feb 21, 2007 12:25pm

Ryan extubated, pulled the ventilator off, himself this morning. The nurses warned us that it would probably happen a time or 2. They caught the incident early and put him back on the ventilator within minutes. Today they are going to start feeding Ryan through the tube that goes directly into his stomach. We are excited about this, and are in hopes that he will start gaining weight again with the added nutrition. His ventilator settings have gone up again to a rate of 50. The settings are based on his blood gas readings, but we don't really understand why the ventilator settings keep needing to be increased. His blood sugar has also be running high, and he has needed insulin pretty regularly for the past day and a half. Again, we don't really know what is going on to cause this need, but we hope to talk to the doctor about some of our questions today. Ryan is going to be receiving blood today.

Thank you for all your prayers. Please continue to pray our little Peanut. A lot of things are happening today, and we desperatly need God to touch everything that is being done.

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