More steady progress. He had another good blood gas this morning, so they weaned him from 6 liters of vapotherm to 5. He is tolerating the wean from the morphine pretty well, except he is spitting up some more - which they say is not too uncommon during withdrawal. Dr. Duffy recommended slowing down his feeds a little, feeding him over an hour instead of all at once. That seems to be helping. Between pooping and projectile spitting up, he's gone through about 10 outfits in two days. I am waiting to move them from the washer to the dryer as I type this. I guess last night his white blood cell count was a bit high, so today they started him on a course of gentamycin, to ward off a possible infection in his central line. So far he is showing no physical symptoms of an infection, so hopefully this will take care of it without complication. I think that is all of the medical news.

Thanks to our visitors today: Cory (Josh's cousin) this morning and my Aunt and Uncle from Milwaukee. Thanks for visiting with us and admiring Gabe, doesn't he look fantastic?

One of the surgical nurses had a little boy with a pretty serious DH and the NICU staff (particularly one of the RTs) have been talking to her about us. She came up today when she got off work and talked to me for a little while about their experiences. They were up here for three months, with plenty of setbacks and complications. It was comforting to talk to somebody who has been there. Here's a small world tidbit, she and her husband grew up in Evansville!