6 weeks old=34 weeks

When people ask how old Chase is we often give two responses-how many days or weeks since he was born 6wks. or 44 days, but also we give his gestational age which is will be 34 wks. tomorrow. Once August 29th comes around we can also start calculating his corrected age, since he may not be reaching milestones like a 3 mo. old at that point since he was so premature. Confused yet?

Rounds today didn't go as well as expected since he's been having some temperature issues. Twice last night his temp dropped. The second time they but him under the warmer and he maintained his temperature afterwards. His blood work is coming back fine, but they are concerned that the bacteria from his eye infection(he's still on the medicine) could have spread. He still is also having reflux issues and his lungs still don't look great on the chest x-ray. They've needed to increase his O2 a little and someone today even mentioned CPAP again:( So they are trying to pinpoint what exactly is going on. He was switched to a new set of diuretics yesterday, but they decided on another dose of Lasix and started him on Zantac to see if that would help the reflux-which could be the reason behind his need for increased oxygen. Too many variables!

The respiratory therapist came in while the team was meeting for rounds and saw that the heater on this oxygen had been turned down. This hopefully is what was causing his temperature drop. When the heat is turned up, the tube that connects to his cannula collects condensation and when the tube is moved, or when he moves he sometimes gets water up his nose! Turning down the heat prevents the condensation from forming, but it also may have impacted his body temp. We are keeping our fingers crossed that this solves the issue, because we don't want the little one to have to go through more tests!