Having a pleasant day!

It was such a nice day we had the top down on the way to the hospital. Good fun.

After picking up some new bedding for Brinson we arrived at the hospital well rested.

We were pleasantly surprised to find Brin is having a good day. She is still at 25% and we can see poop at the end of the stoma which is good news.

Tonight we are eating with the Baldwins at Thai Spice in Village. I believe Kim's mom from cali is coming as well. Should be fun.

Technology is amazes me sometimes. I am bedside with Brin just watching her sleep, confirming golf with Mike and typing on the blog. All with my mobile....wow.

I will post some more pictures and videos as soon as blog will let me.

Had a good night...YEAH!

We checked on Brinson this am and she seems to have had a good night.

She is sating well, her glucose levels are still good and she peed a lot (40+ cc). Which is awesome, if you remember the last surgery....she did not pee for 3 days. Thanks to all the pee dancers the pee came and the rest is history.

Still no poop :(

Things went well today

After Lisa and I got to hold Brinson. We were on a high you could not believe.

Around ~630pm she had surgery on her gut. We talked to Dr. Minkes and he thinks the surgery went well. He pulled out the stoma and put in a rubber tube through the stoma to keep it from going back in. The rubber tube will stay in for 10 days.

We also found out she has a staph infection in her lungs. They are not too worried because antibiotics are on board and she is breathing quite well.

In fact, she was saturating O2 on 25% this afternoon and 24% after surgery this evening. He CO2 is pretty good and her glucose has been.

Since she was paralyzed for the surgery I was able to snap a few photos while she was still.
Compare these ring shots. The one on top is from March 7th. The one on bottom is from today. My wedding ring will no longer fit on her arm.


Look how small her fingers are....wow!

Videos from Brinson being held

Here is Mommy finally getting to hold her daughter after 4 weeks. Thanks Tiffani.

Pictures speak volumes

One of the best moments of our lives


Look at Mommie smile!!!!









Even Brinson liked to be held.














Another Family photo!!!














Even Nana got to see all the fun Brinson, Mommy and Daddy are having.



Wow what a moment. I can't even describe it.

Mommy holds Brinson (sort of)

They had to fix Brinson's bedding this evening, so Lisa got to hold her up while "Auntie Tiffani" changed the bedding. Brinson did so well for Mommy. Yeah team!










It's too loud ....SSSHHHHH!!!!

Blowing bubbles

Here is Brinson touching her head....DUH!

If you look closely you can see where they did the PDA surgery on her.


She is just so cute.










Brinson has been on her belly most of the day.....and according to a reliable source she does not like lying with her head to right.

Look at her eyebrows....pretty funny. She does not like that side.....at least today.








Here is a video of Brinson lying looking toward the right. Watch for the bubbles. I know it is gross....but yet cute at the same time......there is nothing gross about Brinson.



Here is where the picture of Grandfather taking Brinson's temperature would go.....but someone forgot to take the picture. Oppps.....Lisa.

Pointy Ears....

Well it seems Brinson has pointy ears. Very strange. I have not seen this before. I will have to examine them closer tonight when I go see her.

Lisa just sent me this picture via her mobile phone.

Brinson is going to have surgery tomorrow to bring the stoma out a little bit more. Hopefully this will allow her to poop.

Her nutrition analysis came back this morning and the doctor was quite surprised with the results. They turned out very good except the glucose levels being low.... The doctor is also quite happy with the weight gain from Monday to Thursday.

They did start her on antibiotics today just in case there is an infection. But they would have started it anyways with surgery being tomorrow.

Still good with CO2 as of 530am

I am off at training today......but I just got a partial update. So I thought I would tell the masses.

She has had 2 good ABGs in a row. That is good. Hopefully that will make a difference.

She was weighed last night and she is still less than 2 lbs......at 1lb and 15.4 oz or .2oz larger from Monday.

Lisa and Grandfather are heading up there now. So I will have more later.

4 weeks old but a not so good day

Yesterday was a very stressful day. Lisa and I stared the day with Brinson having several bad ABGs (blood gases) in a row. Apparently she is saturating oxygen fine, but is not ventilating. This means she is storing CO2 instead of releasing it. This is pretty common with preemies that have been on the vent for a while.

The good news is after coming up with a plan......her CO2 came down in the evening. So only time will tell if this will be a problem. The plan is to use a 5 day steroid trailing off each day......well see if we have to execute on the plan or not.

She is still doing pretty good with the milk....there has been some residual, but she is still digesting.

Still no poop, but we do have bowel sounds.....so it is going to happen unless..... They are talking about doing a catheter in the stoma to see if she has a plug or narrowing....which could prevent the poop.

Please keep her in your thoughts and prayers....especially focusing on getting her lungs better and Brinson having some poop!. If she has poop, we can begin feeding her more......and then if their is nutrition on board we can get more weight on her.....and can basically fix anything.

Thanks again for all your support......